Objective: To discuss healthy diet from a psychological perspective by considering
definitions of healthy diet in terms of consumer understanding; the health effects of specific …

Involuntary images and visual memories are prominent in many types of psychopathology.
Patients with posttraumatic stress disorder, other anxiety disorders, depression, eating …

Mental imagery has been considered relevant to psychopathology due to its supposed
special relationship with emotion, although evidence for this assumption has been …

Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, memory,
language, decision-making, and intelligence. Students examine major discipline-related …

The authors argue that human desire involves conscious cognition that has strong affective
connotation and is potentially involved in the determination of appetitive behavior rather …

What strategies can people use to control unwanted habits? Past work has focused on
controlling other kinds of automatic impulses, especially temptations. The nature of habit …

AIM: Maladaptive cognitions about food, weight and shape bias attention, memory and
judgment and may be linked to disordered eating behaviour. This paper reviews information …

Background The vast majority of research on, and clinical assessment of, cognitions related
to suicide and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has focused on verbal thoughts. And yet …

Objective: Several lines of research have shown that the confrontation with attractive food
can trigger overeating, especially in restrained eaters. This effect may be driven by a …

Introduction: Ten years after the publication of Elaborated Intrusion (EI) Theory, there is now
substantial research into its key predictions. The distinction between intrusive thoughts …