ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
To Message or Browse? Exploring the Impact of Phone Use Patterns on Male Adolescents' Consumption of Palatable Snacks.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Social Media and Children's and Adolescents' Diets: A Systematic Review of the Underlying Social and Physiological Mechanisms.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Pooled it
- Meal-time Smartphone Use in an Obesogenic Environment: Two Longitudinal Observational Studies.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2021Trial
- Prevalence and Characteristics of Eating Behavior Disorders Among Children and Adolescents.Cureus · 2025Article
- How Digital Food Affects Our Analog Lives: The Impact of Food Photography on Healthy Eating Behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Distraction decreases rIFG-putamen connectivity during goal-directed effort for food rewards.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Using Smartphones When Eating Increases Caloric Intake in Young People: An Overview of the Literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- [Association of mobile phone overuse with sleep disorder and unhealthy eating behaviors in college students of a medical university in Guangzhou].Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2019Article
- Eating behaviours, social media usage, and its association: A cross-sectional study in Indian medical undergraduates.Industrial psychiatry journalArticle
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Abstract
Surveys of mobile phone usage suggest that adolescents habitually use their phones while eating. In this study, we explored whether the manner in which one uses a mobile phone - to engage in a social or non-social activity - can affect appetite regulation. Participants were fifty male adolescents randomly assigned to engage in one of the following phone-based activities: (1) sending and receiving messages (social activity), or (2) reading a neutral article (non-social activity). When given the opportunity to snack, participants in the messaging group consumed more snacks that those who read the article. Our findings correspond to a large literature emphasizing social influences on food intake, and suggest that phone use patterns may predispose an individual to overeating.
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