Trial reportAppetite2015
Effects of awareness that food intake is being measured by a universal eating monitor on the consumption of a pasta lunch and a cookie snack in healthy female volunteers.
Trial report in Appetite, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review of Sensor-Based Methods for Measurement of Eating Behavior.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
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- Questionnaire and behavioral task measures of impulsivity are differentially associated with body mass index: A comprehensive meta-analysis.Psychological bulletin · 2017Pooled it
- Development and Validation of a Universal Eating Monitor (UEM) for Distinguishing the Intake of Multiple Foods and Macronutrients.Nutrients · 2025Article
- The Universal Eating Monitor (UEM): objective assessment of food intake behavior in the laboratory setting.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022 · on this mapReview
- Factors behind healthy snack consumption at school among high-school students: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2019Article
- The Impact of E-diaries and Accelerometers on Young Adults' Perceived and Objectively Assessed Physical Activity.Psychology of sport and exercise · 2017Article
- The effect of heightened awareness of observation on consumption of a multi-item laboratory test meal in females.Physiology & behavior · 2016Article
- The Effects of Liking Norms and Descriptive Norms on Vegetable Consumption: A Randomized Experiment.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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Abstract
To date, there have been no studies that have explicitly examined the effect of awareness on the consumption of food from a Universal Eating Monitor (UEM - hidden balance interfaced to a computer which covertly records eating behaviour). We tested whether awareness of a UEM affected consumption of a pasta lunch and a cookie snack. 39 female participants were randomly assigned to either an aware or unaware condition. After being informed of the presence of the UEM (aware) or not being told about its presence (unaware), participants consumed ad-libitum a pasta lunch from the UEM followed by a cookie snack. Awareness of the UEM did not significantly affect the amount of pasta or cookies eaten. However, awareness significantly reduced the rate of cookie consumption. These results suggest that awareness of being monitored by the UEM has no effect on the consumption of a pasta meal, but does influence the consumption of a cookie snack in the absence of hunger. Hence, energy dense snack foods consumed after a meal may be more susceptible to awareness of monitoring than staple food items.
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