The role played by negative affect in food reappraisal.

Food-related cognitive reappraisal refers to reinterpreting thoughts about eating and can be used to downregulate the desire to eat. Food reappraisal has been proposed as a method for treating obesity and overweight. However, the influence of food reappraisal on affective states has been understudied.

Mechanisms underlying food devaluation after response inhibition to food.

Multiple studies reveal that a requirement to stop a response to appetitive food stimuli causes devaluation of these stimuli. However, the mechanism underlying food devaluation after stopping is still under debate. The immediate-affect theory suggests that an increase in negative affect after stopping a response is the driving force for food devaluation.