ArticleAppetite2015
Differential associations between obesity and behavioral measures of impulsivity.
Article in Appetite, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02930642 (Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Impulsive Food Choice), which is not on this map. Cited by 28 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Impulsive Food Choice
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of delay discounting among workers: framing effects, resource availability, and health.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Relationship between monetary delay discounting and obesity: a systematic review and meta-regression.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2019Pooled it
- Questionnaire and behavioral task measures of impulsivity are differentially associated with body mass index: A comprehensive meta-analysis.Psychological bulletin · 2017Pooled it
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- Relation of BOLD response to food-specific and generic motor response inhibition tasks to body fat gain in adults with overweight and obesity.Physiology & behavior · 2023Article
- Reward and inhibition in obesity and cigarette smoking: Neurobiological overlaps and clinical implications.Physiology & behavior · 2023Review
- Delay discounting, probability discounting, and interdental cleaning frequency.BMC oral health · 2022Article
- A Neuroeconomics Approach to Obesity.Biological psychiatry · 2022Review
- Functional Abnormality of the Executive Control Network in Individuals With Obesity During Delay Discounting.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022Article
- Relationship between body image, anxiety, food-specific inhibitory control, and emotional eating in young women with abdominal obesity: a comparative cross-sectional study.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2021Article
- Longer Cortical Silent Period Length Is Associated to Binge Eating Disorder: An Exploratory Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Bad Things Come to Those Who Do Not Wait: Temporal Discounting Is Associated With Compulsive Overeating, Eating Disorder Psychopathology and Food Addiction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Dorsolateral and medial prefrontal cortex mediate the influence of incidental priming on economic decision making in obesity.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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- The association between monetary and sexual delay discounting and risky sexual behavior in an online sample of men who have sex with men.AIDS care · 2018Article
- Concordance between monetary and sexual delay discounting in men who have sex with men.Sexual health · 2018Article
- Promising technological innovations in cognitive training to treat eating-related behavior.Appetite · 2018Review
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Abstract
A growing literature indicates that impulsivity is a fundamental behavioral process that underlies obesity. However, impulsivity is a multidimensional construct, which comprises independent patterns of decision-making that could be uniquely associated with obesity. No research to date has clarified whether obesity is differentially associated with specific behavioral aspects of impulsivity. This study examined whether obesity was differentially associated with patterns of decision-making associated with impulsivity-delay discounting, probability discounting, and response inhibition. Young adults (n = 296; 44.3% male) age 18-30 were recruited from the community with media advertisements. Participants completed a series of standard self-report measures of health outcomes and behavioral measures of delay discounting, probability discounting, and response inhibition individually in a laboratory. Associations between body mass index (BMI) and behavioral outcomes in the whole sample indicated that BMI was associated with age, delay discounting, and probability discounting, but not response inhibition. A logistic regression that included age, sex, and substance use as covariates found that delay discounting, but neither probability discounting nor response inhibition, was associated with obesity status. Sensitivity to delay, rather than response inhibition and sensitivity to uncertainty, may be the best correlate of obesity status in adults. These findings are relevant to our understanding of the fundamental behavioral processes associated with obesity.
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