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Reinforcement Pathology and Obesity: Leadfoot and Worn Brakes

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Air date: Friday, March 21, 2014, 1:00:00 PM
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Category: BSSR - Behavioral and Social Sciences
Runtime: 01:06:32
Description: BSSR Lecture

Obesity is due in part to excessive motivation to eat, and inadequate ability to delay gratification. Food is a strong reinforcer as those high in food reinforcement consume more food, and food reinforcement is cross-sectionally and prospectively related to obesity. The inability to delay gratification is also cross-sectionally and prospectively related to obesity. Excessive motivation to eat and the inability to delay gratification interact, such that those who find food most reinforcing, and are unable to delay gratification, eat the most food and benefit the least from obesity treatment programs. Methods to intervene on these components of reinforcement pathology will be reviewed, with a focus on episodic future thinking, a form of prospection or mental time travel
NLM Title: Reinforcement pathology and obesity : leadfoot and worn brakes / Leonard H. Epstein.
Author: Epstein, Leonard H.
National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research,
Publisher:
Abstract: (CIT): BSSR Lecture Obesity is due in part to excessive motivation to eat, and inadequate ability to delay gratification. Food is a strong reinforcer as those high in food reinforcement consume more food, and food reinforcement is cross-sectionally and prospectively related to obesity. The inability to delay gratification is also cross-sectionally and prospectively related to obesity. Excessive motivation to eat and the inability to delay gratification interact, such that those who find food most reinforcing, and are unable to delay gratification, eat the most food and benefit the least from obesity treatment programs. Methods to intervene on these components of reinforcement pathology will be reviewed, with a focus on episodic future thinking, a form of prospection or mental time travel.
Subjects: Choice Behavior
Eating--psychology
Health Behavior
Obesity--psychology
Obesity--therapy
Publication Types: Lecture
Webcast
 
NLM Classification: WD 210
NLM ID: 101629971
CIT Live ID: 13881
Permanent link: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=13881

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