ArticleAppetite2017
Wanting and liking: Separable components in problematic eating behavior?
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic Review of Food Addiction as Measured with the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Implications for the Food Addiction Construct.Current neuropharmacology · 2019Pooled it
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- Questioning the validity of food addiction: a critical review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- Self-reported food liking and wanting: A factor analytic study of ratings across 49 consecutive days.Appetite · 2024Article
- Response inhibition training as an intervention to modify liking and wanting for foods based on energy density: a proof of concept study.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- The role of cognitive restraint savings and the safety of ketogenic weight loss interventions.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2024Article
- Applying psycho-behavioural phenotyping in obesity characterization.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2023Review
- Disentangling the role of NAc D1 and D2 cells in hedonic eating.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Article
- Testing reward processing models of obesity using in-the-moment assessments of subjective enjoyment of food and non-food activities.Eating behaviors · 2023Article
- Habituation or sensitization of brain response to food cues: Temporal dynamic analysis in an functional magnetic resonance imaging study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, and Vascular Impediment as Consequences of Excess Processed Food Consumption.Cureus · 2022Review
- Food addiction and lifetime alcohol and illicit drugs use in specific eating disorders.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
- Gut microbes and food reward: From the gut to the brain.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- The Role of Impulsivity and Reward Deficiency in "Liking" and "Wanting" of Potentially Problematic Behaviors and Substance Uses.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Task-Dependent Effective Connectivity of the Reward Network During Food Cue-Reactivity: A Dynamic Causal Modeling Investigation.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Separating the Signal from the Noise: How Psychiatric Diagnoses Can Help Discern Food Addiction from Dietary Restraint.Nutrients · 2020Review
- No evidence for an association between obesity and milkshake liking.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Article
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- Brain Activity Associated With Regulating Food Cravings Predicts Changes in Self-Reported Food Craving and Consumption Over Time.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Some individuals may have an addictive-like response to certain foods, possibly contributing to problematic eating. Highly processed foods, with added fats and/or refined carbohydrates, are suggested to be most associated with addictive-like eating. The incentive sensitization theory suggests that wanting (e.g. craving) may drive compulsive drug use rather than liking (e.g. enjoyment), but it is unknown whether highly processed foods elicit similar wanting and liking patterns as drugs of abuse, or whether individual differences exist. The current study examines the association of highly processed foods with craving and liking, and whether these relationships differ by food addiction symptomology, cognitive restraint, or body mass index (BMI). Participants (n = 216) reported craving and liking for 35 foods and completed the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) and Three Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ). Highly processed foods were craved more overall. Craving of highly processed foods was predicted negatively by restraint and positively by YFAS score. Liking of highly processed foods was predicted negatively by restraint and positively by BMI. In conclusion, craving and liking appear distinct with respect to highly processed foods, and may be influenced by addictive-like eating, cognitive restraint, and BMI. This suggests that the incentive sensitization framework may also be relevant for problematic food consumption, especially for individuals reporting food addiction symptoms.
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