The present research
food addiction symptoms
SECONDARY
The primary aim of the present study was to test effects of food advertisements on food-related emotional expectancies. We hypothesized that (a) highly processed food advertisements would increase positive and decrease negative highly-processed food expectancies and would not affect minimally processed food expectancies; (b) minimally processed food advertisements would increase positive and decrease negative minimally-processed food expectancies and would not affect highly processed food expectancies; and (c) a mixture of highly and minimally processed food advertisements would increase positive and decrease negative highly- and minimally-processed food expectancies. The secondary aim was to test the moderating role of food addiction symptoms. We hypothesized that highly processed food advertisements would increase positive and decrease negative highly-processed food expectancies to a greater extent in individuals with a greater number of food addiction symptoms.