Trial reportPsychological science2015
Dietary self-control is related to the speed with which attributes of healthfulness and tastiness are processed.
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100 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Using mouse cursor tracking to investigate online cognition: Preserving methodological ingenuity while moving toward reproducible science.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Pooled it
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- Healthful choices depend on the latency and rate of information accumulation.Nature human behaviour · 2021Trial
- Continuous track paths reveal additive evidence integration in multistep decision making.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Trial
- Attentional bias toward emotional and cigarette cues: Insights from a computer mouse-tracking task in adults who smoke and adults who do not smoke.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
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- Does Feeling Bad Lead to Eating Bad? How Emotion, Deliciousness (Mis)match, and Weight Status Alter Food Choice and ERPs.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Choice-induced preference change under a sequential sampling model framework.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Attentional biases in self-control are associated with reward cue-related brain activity.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- A mouse-tracking classification task to measure the unhealthy = tasty intuition.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Behavioral Signatures of Post-Decisional Attention in Preferential Choice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Ego depletion, compensatory health beliefs, and healthy food choice in Chinese university students: a two-wave longitudinal study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The temporal dynamics of self-control.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Movement tracking of psychological processes: A tutorial using mousetrap.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Effects of Olfactory Valence on the Neural and Behavioral Dynamics of Approach-Avoidance: An EEG Study.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Information Prioritization Underpins the Flexible Expression of Social Preferences Under Time Constraints.Social psychological and personality science · 2025Article
- The Trembling Hand Unraveled: Motor Dynamics and Choice Inconsistency.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Relative social status alters the synchrony of attribute integration in altruistic decisions.iScience · 2025Article
- Personalizing product sets to individual health priorities increases the healthfulness of hypothetical food choices in US adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The trajectory of crime: Integrating mouse-tracking into concealed memory detection.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
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Abstract
We propose that self-control failures, and variation across individuals in self-control abilities, are partly due to differences in the speed with which the decision-making circuitry processes basic attributes, such as tastiness, versus more abstract attributes, such as healthfulness. We tested these hypotheses by combining a dietary-choice task with a novel form of mouse tracking that allowed us to pinpoint when different attributes were being integrated into the choice process with temporal resolution at the millisecond level. We found that, on average, tastiness was processed about 195 ms earlier than healthfulness during the choice process. We also found that 13% to 39% of observed individual differences in self-control ability could be explained by differences in the relative speed with which tastiness and healthfulness were processed.
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