ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2018
Influence of sedentary, social, and physical alternatives on food reinforcement.
Article in Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- Sources of Environmental Reinforcement and Engagement in Health Risk Behaviors Among a General Population Sample of US Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Maternal caregiving stress and metabolic health: Sexual activity as a potential buffer.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- The Effect of Financial Scarcity on Reinforcer Pathology: A Dyadic Developmental Examination.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Sensitization of the reinforcing value of high energy density foods is associated with increased zBMI gain in adolescents.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2022Observational
- Reinforcer pathology's alternative reinforcer hypothesis: A preliminary examination.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2021Article
- Food reinforcement and habituation to food are processes related to initiation and cessation of eating.Physiology & behavior · 2021Review
- Sensitization of the reinforcing value of food: a novel risk factor for overweight in adolescents.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Article
- Environmental enrichment reduces food seeking and taking in rats: A review.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2020Review
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- Reinforcing value and hypothetical behavioral economic demand for food and their relation to BMI.Eating behaviors · 2018Article
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- Choice is relative: Reinforcing value of food and activity in obesity treatment.The American psychologistReview
- Associations Between Daily Activities, Stress, and Sleep Among Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.American journal of lifestyle medicineArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThis study examined the potential for nonfood alternative activities to compete with the reinforcing value of food. Participants rated the frequency and pleasantness of engaging in a variety of activities and made hypothetical choices between food and 4 types of alternatives; cognitive-enriching (reading, listening to music), social (attending a party or event), sedentary (watching TV), and physically active (running, biking).
methodTwo-hundred seventy-six adults completed an online survey using a crowdsourcing platform.
resultsAdults with higher BMI reported engaging in fewer activities within the cognitive-enriching, social, and physically active categories. When examining how well each alternative activity type was able to compete with food, sedentary alternatives were associated with the highest food reinforcement, or were least able to compete with food reinforcers, as compared with cognitive-enriching, social, and physical. Social activities were associated with the lowest food reinforcement, or the best able to compete with food reinforcers.
conclusionThese results suggest that increasing the frequency and range of nonfood alternative activities may be important to obesity. This study also suggests that the class of social activities may have the biggest impact on reducing food reinforcement, and the class of sedentary may have the smallest effect on food reinforcement. These tools have relevance to clinical interventions that capitalize on increasing access to behaviors that can reduce the motivation to eat in clinical interventions for obesity. (PsycINFO Database Record
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