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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-2-3
pubmed:abstractText
The main purpose of this study was to examine if disgust toward unpalatable foods would be reduced among food-deprived subjects and if this attenuation would occur automatically even under moderate levels of food deprivation. Subjects were either satiated or food deprived for 15 hours and electromyographic activity was recorded at the levator muscle region while they were watching pictures of palatable versus unpalatable foods, and pictures of positive versus disgust-related control pictures. For control purposes, subjects' activity of the zygomaticus and corrugator muscles was also recorded. As compared with satiated subjects, food-deprived subjects exhibited stronger activity in the zygomaticus muscle region when watching pictures of palatable foods (but not when watching positive control pictures). More important, hungry subjects exhibited weaker activity in the levator muscle region when watching pictures of unpalatable foods (but not when watching disgusting control pictures). Thus, this is the first study ever to show that specific emotions (disgust) are moderated by homeostatic dysregulation automatically. Results indicate that the modulation of facial expressions might play an important role in lowering the threshold for food intake.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1528-3542
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
(c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
50-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
When hunger finds no fault with moldy corn: food deprivation reduces food-related disgust.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany. hoefling@psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article