ArticleScientific reports2017
Compared to self-immersion, mindful attention reduces salivation and automatic food bias.
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- Effects of mindfulness-based interventions on food craving in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Implementation of Mindfulness-Based Emotion Regulation Strategies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Affective science · 2025Review
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- Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- The Absence of Attentional Bias to Low-Calorie Food Stimuli in Restrictive Dieters: Differences in the Allocation of Attentional Resources to High-Calorie Foods.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Reduced processing of afforded actions while observing mental content as ongoing mental phenomena.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Test-retest reliability of a smartphone-based approach-avoidance task: Effects of retest period, stimulus type, and demographics.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Regenerative Virtual Therapy: The Use of Multisensory Technologies and Mindful Attention for Updating the Altered Representations of the Bodily Self.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Article
- Self-compassion in mindfulness-based stress reduction: An examination of prediction and mediation of intervention effects.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2020Article
- Enhanced response inhibition and reduced midfrontal theta activity in experienced Vipassana meditators.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The next generation of mindfulness-based intervention research: what have we learned and where are we headed?Current opinion in psychology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Immersing ourselves in food images can sometimes make it feel subjectively real, as if the actual food were right in front of us. Excessive self-immersion into mental content, however, is a hallmark of psychological distress, and of several psychiatric conditions. Being aware that imagined events are not necessarily an accurate depiction of reality is a key feature of psychotherapeutic approaches akin to mindfulness-based interventions. Yet, it is still largely unknown to what extent one's engagement with mental content, considering it as real, biases one's automatic tendencies toward the world. In this study, we measured the change in subjective realism induced by a self-immersion and a mindful attention instruction, using self-reports and saliva volumes. Then, we measured behaviorally the impact of subjective realism changes on automatic approach bias toward attractive food (FAB) using an approach-avoidance task. We found a reduction in saliva volume, followed by a reduction in FAB in the mindful condition compared to the immersed condition. During the immersed condition only, saliva volumes, state and trait measures of subjective realism, and food craving traits were positively correlated with FAB values, whereas meditation experience was negatively correlated to it. We conclude that mindful attention instructions can de-automatize food bias.
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