The impact of a fairytale-like story on the food choices of preschool children.

The ongoing obesity epidemic is an indicator that traditional efforts towards diet change are insufficient, and interventions focusing mainly on restrictions of unhealthy food are of limited success. Therefore, approaches targeting food preferences should be integral in counteracting the current epidemic. However, food preferences are affected by a multitude of factors and are usually resistant to changes later in life.

Childhood trauma and violent behavior in adolescents are differentially related to cognitive-emotional deficits.

Introduction: Converging neurobiological and epidemiological evidence indicates that exposure to traumatic events in the early stages of development, that is, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), negatively affects the likelihood of being involved in violent behavior later in life. These problems are hypothesized to be mediated by the disruption of executive functions, in particular, the ability to inhibit inappropriate actions. Here we aimed to distinguish the contribution of inhibition in non-emotional and emotional situations (i.

Time course of attentional bias in social anxiety: Evidence from visuocortical dynamics.

Threat-related attentional bias is thought to have a causal influence on the etiology of social anxiety. However, there is uncertainty on whether attention dwells on or diverts away from threats, and the measurements typically utilized to explore attentional bias cannot continuously quantify changes in attention. Here, we used steady-state visual evoked potentials (ssVEPs) as a continuous neurophysiological measure of visual attentional processing to examine the time course of attentional bias in social anxiety.

Influence of scene-based expectation on facial expression perception: The moderating effect of cognitive load.

Prior expectations play an important role in the process of perception. In real life, facial expressions always appear within a scene, which enables individuals to generate predictions that affect facial expression judgments. In the present study, using event-related potentials, we investigated the influence of scene-based expectation on facial expression processing.