Emotional eating in relation to worries and psychological distress emotional eating in relation to worries and psychological distress amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A population-based survey on adults in Norway

Bongers et al. (2016) investigated whether emotional eaters overeat solely in response to negative emotional cues, by placing subjects into four conditions including negative mood manipulation, positive mood manipulation, food exposure and a control condition (divided over 2 sessions) and by conducting a bogus taste test after each condition and measuring food consumption. Strong associations […]

Since the underlying processes behind the connection between negative mood and binge eating are not yet fully understood, this 2020 study examined the effect of mood (negative/neutral) and state of food deprivation (hunger vs. satiety) of 33 normal-weight females (mean age = 25.1 years, mean BMI = 21.6) on their level of food craving. The […]