RESEARCH_FILE
C. Peter Herman
University of Toronto
Known for:Co-developer of restraint theory with Janet Polivy; early counterregulatory eating experiments demonstrating that dietary rule-breaking, not caloric need, drives post-slip overeating
Key findings
- 1975
With Janet Mack, Herman showed that restrained dieters consumed more food after a high-calorie preload than non-dieters did — counterregulatory eating — establishing that the dietary rule violation, not hunger, was the trigger for subsequent overeating. Restrained and Unrestrained Eating ↗