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To Like Or To Want? Exploring The Psychobiological Processes Of Human Food Reward, Angela Mastroianni
To Like Or To Want? Exploring The Psychobiological Processes Of Human Food Reward, Angela Mastroianni
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
The Incentive Salience Theory (IST; Berridge and Robinson, 1998; 2016) has shown that wanting (craving) and liking (affective) processes can affect eating behaviour differently in animals. These processes often correlate but can dissociate (change differently) under certain circumstances as they rely on separate neural mechanisms (Berridge, 1996). More recently, work has been testing the IST in people by comparing broad food categories (Finlayson et al. 2007a; 2008). The results have been inconsistent, sparking debate about the theory's value for studying human feeding (Havermans, 2011; 2012).
This dissertation's aim was to explore if IST wanting and liking are independent processes controlling …