Effects of cue salience on the behavior of obese and normal subjects.

Hypothesized that a Body Weight * Cue Salience interaction would occur in determining responsiveness to external cues. Ss were 37 normal and 33 obese male high school students. Obese Ss were expected to be more responsive than normal Ss to highly salient external cues and less responsive to low salient cues. Salience was manipulated by varying the loudness of an auditory cue. Results support the hypothesis (p