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Front Psychol. 2020 Jun 03;11:1068. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01068. eCollection 2020.

The Implicit Association of High-Fat Food and Shame Among Women Recovered From Eating Disorders.

Frontiers in psychology

Roni Elran-Barak, Tzipi Dror, Andrea B Goldschmidt, Bethany A Teachman

Affiliations

  1. School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
  2. The School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  3. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Miriam Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
  4. School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States.

PMID: 32581937 PMCID: PMC7283547 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01068

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Despite the growing literature about recovery from eating disorders (EDs), it is still unknown if women who report being recovered from EDs present with differing implicit attitudes about high-fat (vs. low-fat) food relative to women who report having a current ED and women who report never having had an ED.

METHODS: Female volunteers (

RESULTS: Women with prior EDs had stronger implicit associations relative to healthy controls (

DISCUSSION: The implicit association between high-fat food and shame may not diminish over time among women with EDs. Future longitudinal studies are warranted to clarify whether an experience of EDs may leave a "scar," manifested in specific implicit associations, that may potentially lead to recurrence after remission.

Copyright © 2020 Elran-Barak, Dror, Goldschmidt and Teachman.

Keywords: EAT-26; eating disorders; high-fat food; implicit association; recovery

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