Research on emotions as a trigger for food intake has mainly been focused on the role of
negative emotions. In the present studies the role of positive emotions as a trigger for food …

Emotional eaters are often presumed to eat in response to negative emotions, while positive
emotions have been largely neglected. The current study induced a positive, negative, or …

Do people with a high score on a scale for eating in response to negative emotions also
show high food intake in response to positive emotions? We studied these effects in 60 …

An important but unreplicated earlier finding on comfort eating was that the association
between food intake and immediate mood improvement appeared to be mediated by the …

People's health is closely linked to their diet. Diet can be defined as the set of foods that are
consumed in a day, and it is susceptible to being altered by various factors, such as …

Based on recent studies indicating that emotional eating is not the clearly defined problem it
is often thought to be, the present study investigated whether emotional eaters overeat …

The current study investigated whether negative mood alone, or in conjunction with
exposure to food cues, influences the urge to eat. Female participants (N= 160) were …

Appropriate food choices play a significant role in mood enhancement. Advertisement is
another crucial factor that negatively affects food choices and mood and contributes to many …

Whether emotions affect eating, and in whom, has remained unclear. This meta-analysis
assessed the effect of emotions on eating in both healthy and eating disordered individuals …

We examined the associations of emotional eating and depressive symptoms with the
consumption of sweet and non-sweet energy-dense foods and vegetables/fruit, also …