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

Akram Bakkour, Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Neta Cohen, Ashleigh M Hover, Russell A Poldrack and Tom Schonberg

PLOS ONE, 2018, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-23

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.

Date: 2018
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