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With this task, participants are presented with either a word or a letter string and have to decide as fast as possible whether the target stimulus is a word. , Neely, 1991). Thus, we recognize words faster if they are at the top of our minds, compared to unfamiliar and rarely thought-about words. 1). Eating-enjoyment primes had no effect on reaction times of unrestrained eaters. But why should palatable food items have greater attraction for restrained than for unrestrained eaters? , Roefs, Herman, MacLeod, Smulders, & Jansen, 2005), we reasoned that restrained eaters’ difficulty in resisting palatable food could be due to the way in which they represent food items.

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