Subjective Costs of Self-Control in Binge-Eating Disorder (BED)

People with binge-eating disorder (BED) often eat an unusually large amount of food and experience a sense of loss of control. We conducted an online study and used a neuroeconomic approach to measure how individuals with binge-eating disorder symptoms evaluate the cost of exerting self-control in response to low-tempting, medium-tempting, and high-tempting foods.

My contribution to the project includes:

• designing an online experimental task to to measure subjective cost of self-control on REDCap
• developing an R script to automate scoring and preprocessing of the study's large dataset
• performing data cleaning, visualization, and analysis (linear mixed-effects models) in R

• Berner. L.A., Viranda, T., Gu, X., & Raio,C. The perceived costs of self-control among adults with binge eating. Manuscript in preparation.‍‍
• Berner, L.A., Viranda, T., Gu, Xiaosi, Raio,C. (2021, May). Greater perceived cost of self-control in adults with binge eating. Poster presented at the virtual annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry