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Potential psychological accounts for the relation between food insecurity and body overweight

Citation:

Ert, E. ; Heiman, A. . Potential Psychological Accounts For The Relation Between Food Insecurity And Body Overweight. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2017, 40, 53.

Date Published:

2017

Abstract:

We suggest two psychological mechanisms, temporal discounting and feeling of resource scarcity, for explaining the relation between food insecurity and body overweight. We demonstrate how Nettle et al.'s findings could be explained, post hoc, by each of these accounts, suggesting that their data are not rich enough to allow identification of mechanisms that underlie food insecurity and overweight relationship.

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