Mechanisms of emotional eating: food approach bias covaries with affect on days with high food craving

Mareike Röttger

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2026.108462

Mechanisms of emotional eating: food approach bias covaries with affect on days with high food craving

2026-01-17

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Mareike Röttger *

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Sercan Kahveci

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Jens Blechert

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Matthias Burkard Aulbach

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Hannah van Alebeek

DOI：10.1016/j.appet.2026.108462

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Emotional eating (EE) - eating in response to emotions - has clinical relevance, yet its underlying mechanisms (how?) remain poorly understood. Questions also concern interindividual differences (who?), and the types of foods involved (what?). We hypothesized that negative affect would be linked to increased, and positive affect to decreased food approach biases (how?). These effects were expected to be moderated by trait EE (who?) and by the goal-congruency and hedonic value of the foods (what?).

Mechanisms of emotional eating: food approach bias covaries with affect on days with high food craving

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