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In this paper, we summarize our views and evaluations of the papers presented at a symposium on recent trends in the study of eating and its disorders held at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society in New Orleans, 1990. We consider it an encouraging sign that the speakers focused to such a great extent upon experiential/associative/cognitive factors as being important determinants of human eating. In agreement with most of the speakers, we also feel that although great strides have been made in the attempt to understand the physiological influences over meals in well-controlled paradigms, there has been no significant application of this research to the study of human eating and its disorders. Perhaps more significant is that neither viable explanations for nor treatments of eating disorders based on physiological approaches have been forthcoming. The symposium provided excellent summaries of research on several important aspects of human eating and suggested areas in which research is needed.
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Preparation of this paper was aided by NIH Grant DK-17844. We thank Elizabeth Capaldi and the Psychonomic Society, and the other participants, for their help.
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Woods, S.C., Sipols, A.J. Recent trends in the investigation of eating and its disorders. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 29, 273–278 (1991). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03342696
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