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Published on in Vol 8, No 3 (2019): March

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/12265, first published .
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The Effects of Positive Affect and Episodic Future Thinking on Temporal Discounting and Healthy Food Demand and Choice Among Overweight and Obese Individuals: Protocol for a Pilot 2×2 Factorial Randomized Controlled Study

The Effects of Positive Affect and Episodic Future Thinking on Temporal Discounting and Healthy Food Demand and Choice Among Overweight and Obese Individuals: Protocol for a Pilot 2×2 Factorial Randomized Controlled Study

Sara M Levens   1 , PhD ;   Sara J Sagui-Henson   2 , PhD ;   Meagan Padro   3 , BA ;   Laura E Martin   4 , PhD ;   Elisa M Trucco   5 , PhD ;   Nina A Cooperman   6 , PsyD ;   Austin S Baldwin   7 , PhD ;   Angelos P Kassianos   8 , PhD ;   Noreen D Mdege   9 , PhD

1 University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Psychological Science, Charlotte, NC, United States

2 Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Fransisco, CA, United States

3 Department of Psychological Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States

4 Hoglund Brain Imaging Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, United States

5 Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States

6 Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, United States

7 Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States

8 Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom

9 University of York, Department of Health Sciences, York, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author:

  • Sara M Levens, PhD
  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Department of Psychological Science
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