Alisa Anokhina a researcher in clinical health psychology at UCL talks about eating disorder research at the intersection of the conscious and the unconscious.
Impulsive food choice is one major causes of obesity. Impulsive food choice happens when individuals prefer a smaller immediate reward (e.g. the good feeling arising from eating a piece of chocolate cake) than a larger delayed reward (e.g. the health…
Various studies suggest that people are more prone to choose unhealthy food especially when they are low in self-control, for example when they shop at the supermarket after being…
Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. Daniel Goldstein, cognitive psychologist, talks about how individuals can make smarter choices for their future.
Health psychologist Jonathan Bricker explains how individuals can modify their behavior to achieve their health goals.
What is self control and how important is it in our everyday life? Dan Ariely, a renown behavioral scientist talks about self control and the difference between our long term goals and our short term actions.
Several self-control theories indicate that one of the most important determinant of behavior toward high-energy density foods is the elicitation of motor impulses (the unintentional tendency to move) towards these…