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Psychosomatic Medicine 28:27-33 (1966)
© 1966 American Psychosomatic Society

Effects of Rejection on Psychogenic Hunger

DONALD P. SPENCE PH.D.1, CAROL M. GORDON 1, and JUDITH RABKIN 1

1 Research Center for Mental Health, New York University, New York, N.Y.

The relationship between experimentally aroused rejection and psychogenic hunger was investigated in 2 studies. In both studies, psychogenic hunger was aroused by rejection primarily in Ss who acknowledged feelings of rejection; it tended not to appear in Ss who denied the rejection. In neither study was psychogenic hunger associated with the use of food as a substitute for affection. The results suggest that hunger and rejection may be closely coupled in the development of eating disorders, and that a person may eat to assuage either or both feelings.

Submitted on April 19, 1965






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