TY - JOUR
AU1 - STUNKARD, ALBERT
AU2 - KOCH, CHARLES
AB - Abstract This paper describes the correlation between the presence of gastric motility and reports of hunger in four groups of persons: obese and nonobese men and women. Current clinical conceptions of hunger are based on reports that the experience of hunger occurs primarily during contractions of the empty stomach. We were therefore surprised to find that a number of obese women showed an apparent "denial of hunger" in the presence of gastric motility.15 An extension of this study to men, using an improved method of data analysis, reveals that denial of hunger is a special case of a more general bias of obese subjects in associating hunger with gastric motility. Obese persons seem particularly prone to one extreme or the other, with women tending to denial of hunger and men to "exaggeration of hunger." Method The female subjects were 17 obese and 18 non References 1. Cannon, W. B., and Washburn, A. L.: An Explanation of Hunger , Amer J Physiol 29:441-454, 1912. 2. Carlson, A. J.: The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1916. 3. Code, C. F.; Hightower, W. C.; and Morlock, C. G.: Motility of the Alimentary Canal in Man: Review of Recent Studies , Amer J Med 13:328-351, 1952.Crossref 4. Davis, R. C.; Garafolo, L.; and Kveim, K.: Conditions Associated With Gastro-Intestinal Activity , J Comp Physiol Psychol 52:466-475, 1959.Crossref 5. Griggs, R. C., and Stunkard, A. J.: The Interpretation of Gastric Motility: II. Sensitivity and Bias in the Perception of Gastric Motility, in this issue. 6. Grossman, M. I.; Cummins, G. M.; and Ivy, A. C.: The Effect of Insulin on Food Intake After Vagotomy and Sympathectomy , Amer J Physiol 149:100-102, 1947. 7. Jackson, D. N., and Messick, S.: " Response Styles and the Assessment of Psychopathology ," in Measurement in Personality and Cognition , edited by Samuel Messick and John Ross, New York: Wiley, 1961. 8. Luce, R. D.: " Detection and Recognition ," in Handbook of Mathematical Psychology , edited by R. D. Luce, R. R. Bush, and E. Galanter, New York: Wiley, 1963, vol 1. 9. MacDonald, R. M.; Inglefinger, F. J.; and Belding, H. W.: Late Effects of Total Gastrectomy in Man , New Eng J Med 237:887-896, 1947.Crossref 10. Machella, T. E.: Personal communication to the author. 11. Mendelson, M.; Weinberg, N.; and Stunkard, A. J.: Obesity in Men: A Clinical Study of 25 Cases , Ann Intern Med 54:660-671, 1961.Crossref 12. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Statist Bull Metrop Life Insur Co 24:6, 1943. 13. Penick, S. B.; Smith, G. P.; and Hinkle, L. E.: Gastric Motility in Hungry Men Recorded by a Transensor Capsule , Clin Res 10:192, 1962. 14. Stunkard, A. J.; Grace, W. J.; and Wolff, H. G.: The Night-Eating Syndrome: A Pattern of Food Intake Among Certain Obese Patients , Amer J Med 19:78-85, 1955.Crossref 15. Stunkard, A. J.: Obesity and the Denial of Hunger , Psychosom Med 21:281-289, 1959.Crossref 16. Swets, J. A.; Tanner, W. P., Jr., and Birdsall, T. G.: Decision Processes in Perception , Psychol Rev 68:301-340, 1961.Crossref 17. Taylor, J. A.: A Personality Scale of Manifest Anxiety , J Abnorm Soc Psychol 48:285-290, 1953.Crossref
TI - The Interpretation of Gastric Motility: I. Apparent Bias in the Reports of Hunger by Obese Persons
JF - Archives of General Psychiatry
DO - 10.1001/archpsyc.1964.01720250076010
DA - 1964-07-01
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SP - 74
EP - 82
VL - 11
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