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Excess consumption of dietary fat promotes chronic disease such as heart disease and cancer. Dietary analysis and feedback are often used to motivate dietary change; however, little is known about how people process, react to, and use this feedback to change behavior. This study used a randomized feedback design to examine psychological reactions to dietary fat feedback. Subjects were assessed for fat consumption and then randomly assigned to a high, moderate, or low percentage of calories from fat feedback group. Findings indicate that there are strong emotional, cognitive, and behavioral reactions to providing high-fat dietary feedback. Subjects that were told their diets were high in fat reported stronger negative emotional reactions and also reported they had stronger intentions to change than the other two feedback categories. These results are compared with studies providing nonrandomly assigned risk factor feedback....
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