Objective The current study examined experimentally whether a manipulated attention bias
for food cues increases craving, chocolate intake and motivation to search for hidden
chocolates. Method To test the effect of attention for food on subsequent chocolate intake,
attention for chocolate was experimentally modified by instructing participants to look at
chocolate stimuli (“attend chocolate” group) or at non-food stimuli (“attend shoes” group)
during a novel attention bias modification task (antisaccade task). Chocolate consumption …