The Effect of Exposure to Thinness and Fatness Comments on Female Relative Right Frontal Cortical Activity
Completed
- Conditions
- Healthy females
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON31449
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Inclusion Criteria
Between 18 and 40 years
Healthy right-handed females
Exclusion Criteria
Females with a history of eating pathology (anorexia or bulimia) cannot participate in this experiment.
Females younger than 18 or older than 40 years.
Females presently engaged in a weight-loss diet.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Right frontal asymmetry should increase either because participants are<br /><br>*thinspired* after being primed with the social rewards of thinness and/or<br /><br>because participants *fear fatness* after being primed with the social<br /><br>punishments associated with fatness. </p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>We also expect that because people are in general more strongly influenced by<br /><br>negative information than positive information, the negative fatness messages<br /><br>should induce greater right frontal cortical activity than thinness messages<br /><br>when females are faced with the high calorie food. </p><br>