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The Report Card Script
THE HIDDEN RULE
“Every bite gets a moral grade, and the grade goes on my record.” Moralized eating turns meals into verdicts — and the research is blunt: people who file chocolate cake under guilt don't eat better, they report less control and do worse. The grading is the problem, not the cake.
RESEARCH FINDINGS
MECHANISMS
Bedtime Procrastination Loop
The bedtime procrastination loop is a self-regulation failure pattern in which a person repeatedly goes to bed later than intended not because of exte
Food Guilt Backfire
Food guilt backfire describes the empirically documented pattern in which associating an 'indulgent' food with guilt predicts worse dietary outcomes —
Streak-Break Spiral
The streak-break spiral is the pattern in which a single missed habit instance triggers the abstinence-violation effect — guilt plus internal attribut
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