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Evidence abounds of a close relation between ingestive and affective processes in rats and in humans. Emotional distress alters food intake and body weight; conversely, alterations in eating and weight influence emotional health. Thorough experimental analysis of the ingestion-affect relation may clarify the mechanisms of anxiety and depression. A strategy is proposed for examination of environmental and dispositional determinants of ingestive processes, emotionality, and responses to stress.

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Nancy K. Dess is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Occidental College. She wrote this paper while she was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. The central theme of her work is fear. Some of her research has been on Pavlovian fear conditioning: its associative structure, ontogeny, and measurement. Although she is interested in fear as an organizer of defensive behavior, she also studies its darker side—chronic or intense fear, or “stress.” She has examined effects of fear and stress on learning, hormonal, and ingestive processes; her subject species include dogs, rats, cats, and humans. Her working hypothesis is that ingestion, broadly conceived, is a useful tool for exploring the mechanisms of anxiety and clinical affective disorders.

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Dess, N.K. Ingestion and emotional health. Human Nature 2, 235–269 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02692188

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