The Effect of Exposure to Thinness and Fatness Comments on Female Relative Right Frontal Cortical Activity

The Effect of Exposure to Thinness and Fatness Comments on Female Relative Right Frontal Cortical Activity - Thinness, Fatness and Frontal EEG Asymmetry

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON31449

Enrollment

Registered

2008-02-22

Start date

2008-02-22

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-05-13

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Conditions

Healthy females Healthy females

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Age

18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Between 18 and 40 years Healthy right-handed females

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Females with a history of eating pathology (anorexia or bulimia) cannot participate in this experiment. Females younger than 18 or older than 40 years. Females presently engaged in a weight-loss diet.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Right frontal asymmetry should increase either because participants are thinspired after being primed with the social rewards of thinness and/or because participants fear fatness after being primed with the social punishments associated with fatness.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
We also expect that because people are in general more strongly influenced by negative information than positive information, the negative fatness messages should induce greater right frontal cortical activity than thinness messages when females are faced with the high calorie food.	—

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results