Research paper
Adams CE, Leary MR. Promoting self-compassionate attitudes toward eating among restrictive and guilty eaters. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 2007 Dec;26(10):1120-1144. doi:10.1521/jscp.2007.26.10.1120
Why we cite it
An experimental study finding that a self-compassion induction attenuated the disinhibition effect — overeating after a “forbidden” food — in restrained eaters. 84 female undergraduate students, recruited for course credit.
The priority claim is removed, 2026-09-02 (card 6NM98H), and the paper does not make it. This section read ”the first experimental study to demonstrate…” *I extracted the held PDF and searched it: the word first appears four times and not one is a priority claim — ”the first author’s Master’s thesis”, ”avoided in the first place”, and twice as a sentence connective. The authors never claim precedence, and nothing in this directory establishes it. Same shape as `chf07`’s dropped ”first study to formally distinguish”.
Two facts the section lacked and a citing page needs: the sample is 84 female undergraduates, and the work was conducted as the first author’s Master’s thesis — the paper says so in its own acknowledgement. Neither is a criticism. A thesis study can be excellent and this one is carefully designed. But ”the first experimental study to demonstrate” and ”84 female undergraduates in a Master’s thesis” invite very different confidence, and only the second is checkable here.
Holdings: no abstract is held. This directory has `adams-2007.pdf` and web-search notes; everything above was verified by extracting the PDF today*, which had not been done before. Uniquely distinguishes between two components of rigid dietary restraint — restrictive eating and eating guilt — showing they moderate behavior differently. Demonstrates that self-criticism after diet-breaking, not the eating itself, drives continued overeating, and that interrupting the self-critical response restores normal compensatory eating. Referenced by 1 k-file and 10 companions.