Examined the effects of manipulated fear and food deprivation on the amounts eaten by 43 obese and 48 normal Ss. Normals eat more when they are calm than when frightened and eat more when they are food deprived than when they are sated. The manipulations have no effects on the amounts eaten by obese Ss who eat roughly the same amounts in all experimental conditions. (18 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)