Delay discounting moderates the effect of food reinforcement on energy intake among non-obese women
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Recent theoretical approaches to food intake hypothesize that eating represents a balance between reward-driven motivation to eat versus inhibitory executive function processes, however this hypothesis remains to be tested. The objective of the current study was to test the hypothesis that the motivation to eat, operationalized by the relative reinforcing value (RRV) of food, and inhibitory processes, assessed by delay discounting (DD), interact to influence energy intake in an ad libitum eating task. Female subjects (n = 24) completed a DD of money procedure, RRV task, and an ad libitum eating task in counterbalanced sessions. RRV of food predicted total energy intake, however the effect of the RRV of food on energy intake was moderated by DD. Women higher in DD and RRV of food consumed greater total energy, whereas women higher in RRV of food but lower in DD consumed less total energy. Our findings support the hypothesis that reinforcing value and executive function mediated processes interactively influence food consumption.
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Relative reinforcing value of food predicted ad libitum eating in high discounters but not low discounters.
“Rollins et al. [35] found that the relative reinforcing value of food predicted ad libitum eating in high discounters, but not low discounters.”
From The behavioral economics and neuroeconomics of reinforcer pathologies: implications for etiology and treatment of addiction (2011) · cites this paper as [35]
Rollins et al. found that participants' motivation to eat, measured by demand for edible reinforcers, interacted with rate of discounting to predict amount of food eaten on an ad libitum eating task.
“Rollins et al. [35] found that their participants’ motivation to eat, as measured by demand for edible reinforcers, interacted with their rate of discounting to predict the amount of food that they would eat on an ad libitum eating task.”
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Demand for edible reinforcers predicted the amount of food high discounters would eat when given free access, but not lower discounters.
“Specifically, demand for edible reinforcers predicted the amount of food that high discounters would eat when given free access to food, but not participants who discounted at a lower rate.”
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- Authors
- Rollins, B. Y., Dearing, K. K., & Epstein, L. H.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York (US)
- Corresponding author
- Epstein, Leonard H.
- Venue
- Appetite
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-12
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 420-425
- ISSN
- 0195-6663 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3042851
- OpenAlex
- W2060665624
- Cited by
- 153
- References
- 40
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- FWCI
- 9.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Appetite (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (F31HL092721)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD039778)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
- Keywords
- delay discounting, food reinforcement, energy intake, ad libitum feeding, inhibitory control, executive function, non-obese women, moderation
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Appetite, Energy Intake, Female, Food Preferences, Humans, Motivation, Reward, Satiety Response, Young Adult, Executive Function
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