Session 11: Erin Rasmussen on Obesity, Food Insecurity, & Mindful Eating

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

Science, Mental Health, Skinner, Behaviorism, Behaviorconsultant, Aba, Behavioralpsychology, Health & Fitness, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy, Fba, Social Sciences, Verbalbehavior, Bcba, Functionalassessment, Discretetrial

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In Session 11 of The Behavioral Observations Podcast, I chat with a my good friend Dr. Erin Rasmussen from Idaho State University about her upcoming grant funded study on food insecurity and obesity.

In our discussion we talk about animal models of obesity, behavioral economics and delay discounting, mindful eating, common sense practices for weight loss, and more! There are so many links that go along with this episode that I have decided to put them in a bullet list (apologies to the various teachers who have attempted to teach me how to write).

Erin’s Health Decision-Making Laboratory website, which discusses her research program
The movie Harry that Erin referenced
The iPromptU app
The Morrison et al. (2014) study on ACT and delay discounting
The bSci21.org article on Delay Discounting
The evening news clip that discusses Erin’s project (Yay dissemination!)

This is not only a fascinating program of study, it's a great lesson in dissemination, where animal models of behavior lead to potential treatment applications. I can’t wait for this study’s results!

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the Behavioral Observations podcast with Matt Secoria, session number 11.
0:12.3	Welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior analysts.
0:19.8	Now here's your host, Matt Secoria.
0:24.2	Hey, everybody.
0:25.0	It's Matt here coming at you with session 11 of the behavioral observations podcast.
0:30.4	So for those of you who are on my mailing list, you already know who today's guest is.
0:34.9	It's my good friend from Auburn University back in the days of grad school
0:40.3	Dr. Aaron Rasmussen, she's currently a professor of psychology at Idaho State University,
0:46.3	and she recently was awarded a $400,000 grant to study obesity and food insecurity in women. It's a real fascinating program of
0:58.4	research that I think, even if this is not your area of practice or interest, I think there's
1:05.5	some takeaway information for everyone involved. So, and at the end of the podcast, she actually provides us some,
1:13.1	you know, what the science says about, you know, just some common sense ways of maintaining health
1:18.6	and healthy weight and things like that. So again, I think there's something in this episode for
1:24.6	everyone. And we'll get more into that in just a second. But before doing that,
1:29.0	I do want to let you know that we've reached something of a milestone to the last couple of
1:34.1	sessions of the podcast. As of this recording, we have almost 34,000 downloads, which just blows
1:42.4	my mind. And it's super humbling to think that all of you guys
1:46.5	are out there, taking time out of your day to download my podcast and listen to it, to, you know,
1:53.2	post things on the Facebook page and, you know, write me emails and things like that. It's very,
1:58.3	very gratifying, very reinforcing, if you will.
2:01.7	And so I just want to let you know that I really appreciate that.
2:05.4	I also wanted to create something, some sort of take-home points from the most popular topics
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