PSYC19H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Chicken Salad, Trans Fat, Nature Documentary
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The perfect storm of dieting part 2: experiment: Dieting women watch a really sad emotional scene from a movie. After the movie they all fill a questionnaire about their mood. After they"re all taken into individual rooms to taste test different flavours of ice cream. The ice cream tubs were all partially full (weighed beforehand and afterwards) Dieters who suppressed emotions had a harder time suppressing appetite: experiment: Young female dieters had a bowl of m&m"s in the room while they watched a nature documentary. For some the bowl was within reach (more resisting), and for others it was out of reach. Afterwards, given impossible puzzles, the dieters within arms reach of the snacks gave up sooner on the puzzles: experiment: Same as the previous but with both non-dieters and dieters. Postponed-pleasure ploy: tell yourself you can have something sweet later if you still want it by then (and eat something else now- healthy food gives energy too)
