Shifting priorities: Switching between health and indulgence motivational states impacts proactive inhibition towards unhealthy food

The aim of this project is to identify if the motivational state of eating healthily compared to enjoying tasty but unhealthy food impacts proactive and reactive food-specific inhibitory control. In a within-subjects design, we induce health-oriented and indulgence-oriented motivational states to explore how such temporary motivational states may impact food-specific inhibitory control, using Stop Signal Task and Go/No-Go Task. Data from the pilot study (N=8) and the main study are shared, all analyses are available in Appendix B. Stop Signal Task is also replicated in a separate sample, can be accessed at: https://osf.io/bmwzx/