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Spacing of cue-approach training leads to better maintenance of behavioral change.


ABSTRACT: The maintenance of behavioral change over the long term is essential to achieve public health goals such as combatting obesity and drug use. Previous work by our group has demonstrated a reliable shift in preferences for appetitive foods following a novel non-reinforced training paradigm. In the current studies, we tested whether distributing training trials over two consecutive days would affect preferences immediately after training as well as over time at a one-month follow-up. In four studies, three different designs and an additional pre-registered replication of one sample, we found that spacing of cue-approach training induced a shift in food choice preferences over one month. The spacing and massing schedule employed governed the long-term changes in choice behavior. Applying spacing strategies to training paradigms that target automatic processes could prove a useful tool for the long-term maintenance of health improvement goals with the development of real-world behavioral change paradigms that incorporate distributed practice principles.

SUBMITTER: Bakkour A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6066248 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Spacing of cue-approach training leads to better maintenance of behavioral change.

Bakkour Akram A   Botvinik-Nezer Rotem R   Cohen Neta N   Hover Ashleigh M AM   Poldrack Russell A RA   Schonberg Tom T  

PloS one 20180730 7


The maintenance of behavioral change over the long term is essential to achieve public health goals such as combatting obesity and drug use. Previous work by our group has demonstrated a reliable shift in preferences for appetitive foods following a novel non-reinforced training paradigm. In the current studies, we tested whether distributing training trials over two consecutive days would affect preferences immediately after training as well as over time at a one-month follow-up. In four studie  ...[more]

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