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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"food decision making"”.
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Influence in decision-making: perspectives of adolescent ethical food consumption
… and factors which affect influence in family decision-making, with a focus on how adolescents attempt to influence ethical food decision-making and consumption choices in their families. The study explores family microenvironment and the implications they might have for our existing …
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Adolescent Food Choice: Developing and Evaluating a Model of Parental Influence
… to explore parental impact on adolescent food decision-making. Three specific types of parenting practices (expectation, monitoring, and inducement/enforcement behaviors), parenting style, and family communication style were investigated. A multi-method approach was taken to develop and …
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Constructing everyday notions of healthy eating: exploring how people of three ethnocultural backgrounds in Canada engage with food and health structures
… healthy eating should involve exploration of how food practices are shaped by social structures (or determinants) and individual agency. The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which people engage with food structures to construct everyday notions of healthy eating. ‘Food structures’ …
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Computational modeling of health decision-making
Value-based decision making consists of weighting stimulus attributes to compute stimulus value and guides choice such that the stimulus with highest value is chosen. While successful in maximizing value in the short-term, this does not always lead to long-term advantageous choices. Incorporating …
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Some Like It Hot: The Effect of Serving Temperature on Perceived Caloric Content and Intent to Purchase Complementary Food
… bias, </em>which is defined as the belief that a food or beverage served hot has more calories and is considered more fattening than the same item served cold. Six studies, including an observational field study and follow-up controlled experiments, demonstrate that people indeed hold the serving …
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How young people's decisions about food are influenced by their use of social media in New Zealand
Introduction: There is increased exposure to food-related content through various media (e.g., television), including the addition of social media (SM), which can influence food decisions. Healthy food choices can positively affect physical and mental wellbeing, whereas wrong food choices may have …
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Decision-making in a changing environment : a look at the foraging behavior of honeybees and bumblebees as they respond to shifts in resource availability
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Zoology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, 2010