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Comfort eating, that is eating induced by negative affect, has been a core theme of explanations for overeating and obesity. Psychobiological explanations and processes underlying comfort eating are examined, as well as its prevalence in... more
Prader–Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare multi-systemic genetic disorder, in which 7 or some subset of genes on chromosome 15 are unexpressed or deleted on the paternal chromosome, resulting from failed expression of paternally inherited... more
Restrained eaters have repeatedly been found to overeat following a preload, which phenomenon is called the disinhibition effect. Remarkably, the disinhibition effect is only found when the restraint scale (RS) is used, and never when... more
The present study aimed to further validate the Loss of Control Over Eating Scale (LOCES) for use with undergraduate men and women with and without eating disorder (ED) symptoms. A total of 261 participants completed the LOCES and the... more