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Adiposity affects emotional information processing
César Romero-Rebollar1, Leonor García-Gómez2,3, Mario G Báez-Yáñez4
1Health Sciences Department, Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Lerma, Mexico.
Frontiers in Psychology
|October 13, 2022
Summary
Obesity is linked to emotional processing difficulties, including blunted emotional experiences and inconsistent emotion recognition. More research is needed on automatic emotional processing in overweight and obese individuals.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Public Health
Background:
- Obesity is a global epidemic with significant health and psychological consequences.
- Affective disorders are more prevalent in individuals with obesity.
- Emotional dysfunction impacts social functioning.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review human research on emotional information processing in overweight and obese individuals.
- To provide an overview of current evidence and identify research gaps.
Main Methods:
- Narrative review of existing human studies.
- Synthesis of findings on emotional experience, recognition, and automatic processing.
Main Results:
- Obesity is associated with attenuated emotional experience.
- Emotion recognition in obesity shows contradictory findings.
- Limited research exists on automatic emotional information processing in obesity.
Conclusions:
- Emotional processing is altered in obesity.
- Future research should investigate automatic emotional processing and its neural underpinnings.
- Understanding these mechanisms can inform interventions for obesity and related affective disorders.
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