Effects of distress on eating: The importance of ego-involvement.

D. E. Schotte (see record 1992-31145-001) argued that ego threat is not a necessary precondition for the disinhibition of eating in dieters. This article agrees that there are indeed other triggers for disinhibition, as has long been widely acknowledged, but also argues that when distress does act as a trigger for disinhibition, it does so by threatening the dieter's self-image. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)