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ReviewCurrent obesity reports2026

Early Reward Learning and the Origins of Obesity: Food, Non-Food Reward, and Developing Self-Regulation.

Kai Ling Kong, Amanda K Crandell, Katelyn A Carr

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Review in Current obesity reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kai Ling KongBaby Health Behavior Lab, Center for Population Health & Outcomes Research, Children's Mercy Research Institute, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, 64108, USA. kkong@cmh.edu.
Amanda K CrandellDivision of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, North Campus Research Complex, Building 520, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
Katelyn A CarrDepartment of Pediatrics, Jacobs School of Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThis review examines infancy as a sensitive period for the development of reward learning and self-regulation and evaluates how early experiences with food and non-food rewards shape obesity risk. We sought to address three questions: how biological susceptibility influences early reward processing, how caregiving practices use food as a reward, and how non-food reinforcement modifies the relative reinforcing value of food (RRV RECENT

findingsRecent evidence indicates that obesity risk may depend less on absolute food motivation and more on the relative reinforcing value of food (RRV

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Feeding BehaviorLearningObesityRewardSelf-ControlHumansInfantMotivationReinforcement, PsychologyEnvironmental enrichmentInfancyNon-food reward: Self-regulationReinforcement pathologyReward learning

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PMID42439967

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