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| Title |
A Cognitive Profile of Obesity and Its Translation into New Interventions
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, November 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01807 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Anita Jansen, Katrijn Houben, Anne Roefs |
| Abstract |
Change your lifestyle: decrease your energy intake and increase your energy expenditure, is what obesity experts tell people who need to lose weight. Though the advice might be correct, it appears to be extremely difficult to change one's lifestyle. Unhealthy habits usually are ingrained and hard to change, especially for people with an "obese cognitive profile." Knowledge of the cognitive mechanisms that maintain unhealthy eating habits is necessary for the development of interventions that can change behavior effectively. This paper discusses some cognitive processes that might maintain unhealthy eating habits and make healthier eating difficult, like increased food cue reactivity, weak executive skills and attention bias. An effort is also done to translate these basic scientific findings into new interventions which aim to tackle the sabotaging cognitive processes. Preliminary studies into the effectiveness of these interventions, if available, are presented. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 41 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 6 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 12% |
| United States | 5 | 12% |
| Spain | 3 | 7% |
| Finland | 3 | 7% |
| Canada | 2 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 5% |
| Austria | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 14 | 34% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 18 | 44% |
| Scientists | 13 | 32% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 9 | 22% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 186 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 183 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 42 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 26 | 14% |
| Researcher | 21 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 31 | 17% |
| Unknown | 40 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 67 | 36% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 5% |
| Neuroscience | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 18 | 10% |
| Unknown | 58 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 87. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 February 2018.
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#7,985
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#17
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