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R B Stalling

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PubMed1987

Private body consciousness, anxiety and the perception of pain.

Two studies are described which present data consistent with Barsky and Klerman's hypothesis that people who report pain in the absence of an identifiable organic etiology may be attending to and amplifying normal bodily sensations. The results of these studies demonstrated that young college students with a predisposition toward focusing attention on somatic symptoms (high private body consciousness) and scoring high on State Anxiety reported more areas of aches and pains and rated these sensations as more noxious. Additionally, the most frequent areas of pain identified corresponded to the areas commonly seen in a chronic pain population. An attempt to manipulate self-focused attention with a mirror manipulation in Study 2 failed to produce reliable results.

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PubMed1980

Obesity, compatibility, and a taste preference.

Ratings and proportions of two cookies eaten by obese and normal-weight individuals were affected by the requirement that subjects eat with their nonpreferred hands. Subjects were run in blocks either before or after dinner; it was only before dinner that strong preferences between the two cookies emerged. Normal weight subjects ate approximately equal proportions of the two cookies when using preferred hands but strongly favored the cashew cookie when using their nonpreferred hands. Obese subjects ate more of the cashew cookie when using the preferred hands but more of the oatmeal cookie when using nonpreferred hands. Also, subjects were given fictitious information about previous subjects' preferences between the cookies. Only the normal ones were affected by this information; the obese subjects ate more of the cashew cookie regardless of the "external" cue about other subjects' preferences.

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PubMed1977

Grocery purchases as a function of obesity and assumed food deprivation.

Six hundred and four grocery shoppers were observed unobtrusively at three supermarkets to investigate the relationship between grocery purchasing and the factors of obesity, assumed food deprivation, social class, and meal hour. It has been suggested that shoppers will purchase more if they shop prior to eating rather than after (Stuart & Davis, 1972), although such a notion conflicts with Schachter's (1971) internal-external hypothesis and with the conclusions of one field study (Nisbett & Kanouse, 1969). We found that female shoppers who shopped prior to standard meal times consistently purchased more than those who shopped after meal times (P less than 0.001), regardless of social class or meal hour. Males displayed the same tendency though differences were not significant. No obese-normal differences were found for either sex. A negative relationship between obesity and social class was found amoung females (P less than 0.001).

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