Encyclopedia of Nutritional Psychology

An appetite-related stimulus given to a human or animal that, because of its rewarding characteristics, influences repeated consumption and reinforces the probability of that consumption occurring again. In the Diet-Mental…

Neural circuits and pathways (including dopamine) that are activated by rewarding stimuli, such as high-calorie, palatable foods. These systems play a key role in reinforcing eating behavior, influencing food preferences…

The robustness of a microbiota refers to the degree of change in the microbiota after a disturbance and its ability to recover from this impact. It is an intriguing scale…

The routine is the actual behavior or action that follows the cue. It's the habitual activity that you perform in response to the cue.

Rumination disorder is a DSM-5-TR feeding and eating disorder involving repeated regurgitation of food for at least one month, where food is re-chewed, re-swallowed, or spat out. It reflects a learned disruption of post-meal digestive and interoceptive regulation not explained by a medical condition.

The salience of an object refers to its distinctiveness, prominence, and/or obviousness. In psychology, this term refers to any aspect of an object that makes it noticeable from the rest.…

The feeling of fullness that occurs during a meal letting you know that you’ve eaten enough and don’t want to eat anymore. Think “at the end of a meal.”

Satiety is a feeling of "fullness" that occurs after an eating episode and has an appetite-suppressant effect (Booth, 2003).

The satiety cascade is a conceptual model describing the sequence of physiological and psychological signals that arise during and after eating and that progressively reduce the desire to eat, bringing a…

Satiety hormones promote feelings of fullness and satisfaction after eating. Hormones like cholecystokinin (CCK) and leptin fall into this category.