Many eating‐related psychological constructs have been proposed to explain obesity and
overeating. However, these constructs, including food addiction, disinhibition, hedonic …

In eating research, it is common practice to group people into different eater types, such as
emotional, external and restrained eaters. This categorization is generally based on scores …

Objective We compared eating behaviours, and depressive and anxiety symptoms in two
countries with different confinement strictness strategies and different levels of COVID‐19 …

Introduction The term 'hedonic hunger'refers to one's preoccupation with and desire to
consume foods for the purposes of pleasure and in the absence of physical hunger. The …

Recent molecular genetic studies have shown that the majority of genes associated with
obesity are expressed in the central nervous system. Obesity has also been associated with …

The proposition of so-called 'food addiction'(FA) in the scientific literature has stimulated a
recent surge in research and debate. The concept of FA is controversial, and opinion is …

Research on emotional eating mostly focuses on negative emotions. Much less is known
about how positive emotions relate to overeating and binge eating (BE). The aim of the …

Orthorexia nervosa is characterized by a preoccupation to eat healthily. However, reliability
and validity of some of the existing measures of orthorexic symptomatology are …

Overeating is a complex behavioral phenotype in terms of both physiology and psychology.
The mere transference of the diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders to define food …

Emotional and other maladaptive eating behaviors develop in response to a diversity of
triggers, from psychological stress to the endless external cues in our modern food …