@article{ref1,
title="Breaking the link between negative emotion and unhealthy eating: the role of emotion regulation",
journal="Affective science",
year="2023",
author="Langley, Erika B. and O'Leary, Daniel J. and Gross, James J. and Shiota, Michelle N.",
volume="4",
number="4",
pages="702-710",
abstract="Stressful experiences frequently lead to increased consumption of unhealthy foods, high in sugar and fat yet low in nutrients. Can emotion regulation help break this link? In a laboratory experiment (N = 200), participants were encouraged to ruminate on a current, distressing personal problem, followed by instruction to use a specific emotion regulation strategy for managing feelings around that problem (challenge appraisal, relaxation/distraction, imagined social support, no-instruction control). Participants then spent 15 min on an anagram task in which 80% of items were unsolvable-a frustrating situation offering a second, implicit opportunity to use the regulation strategy. During the anagram task they had free access to a snack basket containing various options. Analyses revealed significant differences among regulation conditions in consumption of candy versus healthy snack options; challenge appraisal led to the healthiest snack choices, imagined social support to the least healthy snack choices.   SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-023-00190-5.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2662-2041",
doi="10.1007/s42761-023-00190-5",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00190-5"
}