Participants
MP
Participants were recruited August 11th–12th, 2020 via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for “A Study on Advertisements and Beliefs” in which they would, “watch and rate the effectiveness of four short advertisement clips and complete some questionnaires about beliefs, feelings, and typical behaviors.” A power analysis conducted in G*Power Version 3.1.9.6 with the following parameters determined a sample size of 788 participants: one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with four groups, power = 0.90, A total of 947 participants started the study before expiration. Inclusion criteria were ⩾18 years old, living in the United States, and ⩾99% approval rating by other investigators. Data of a participant were excluded from analysis if a participant did not complete the study (Demographics of the analytic sample.HP: highly processed; MP: minimally processed; BMI: Body Mass Index; mYFAS 2.0 = Modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0.