Exposure to Television Food Advertising Primes Food-Related Cognitions and Triggers Motivation to Eat.

Auteur(s) :
Kemps E., Tiggemann M., Hollitt S.
Date :
Mai, 2014
Source(s) :
Psychology & Health. # p
Adresse :
School of Psychology , Flinders University , Adelaide , Australia.

Sommaire de l'article

Objective: This study investigated the effect of exposure to television food advertising on accessibility of food-related cognitions and motivation to eat. Design and Main Outcome

Measures: We initially developed a word stem completion task to measure accessibility of food-related cognitions. In two subsequent experiments, 160 female undergraduate students (Experiment 1) and 124 overweight or obese community-dwelling women (Experiment 2) viewed a series of television commercials advertising either food or non-food products. They then completed the word stem task and also rated their desire to eat.

Results: Exposure to televised food advertisements led to the completion of word stems with more food- and eating-related words in both experiments. It also increased self-reported desire to eat, but only for overweight and obese individuals (Experiment 2). In both samples, there was a positive association between accessibility of food-related cognitions and reported desire to eat following priming with television food advertisements.

Conclusion: We conclude that an increased activation of food-related cognitions may provide a mechanism for the link between food advertising and consumption. This has implications for tackling pathological (over)eating.

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