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Competing influences on healthy food choices: Mindsetting versus contextual food cues.
Appetite 166:105476 (2021)
Food choices are influenced by one's current mindset, suggesting that supporting health (vs. a palatability) mindsets could improve daily food choices. The question rises, however, to what extent internal mindsets still guide choices when people are exposed to external food-context stimuli in an obesogenic environment. To examine these two competing effects we induced health vs. palatability mindsets, and investigated the robustness of the mindset effect by presenting food-context stimuli during a Pavlovian-to-Instrumental-Transfer (PIT) task in two separate cohorts of 102 (76 females) Dutch and 120 (60 females) German participants. For the mindset induction, participants rated food items on visual analogue scales (VAS), based on healthiness and palatability, respectively. In each cohort, half of the participants received a health, the other half a palatability mindset induction. Additionally, we explored whether ‘mindset triggers’ could be used to further shape behavior. Triggers were established by placing unfamiliar logos at the extreme ends of the VASs used for the mindset inductions. Independent of the mindset, food-associated stimuli influenced food choices in accordance with the previously learned association in each test phase. Health mindset induction biased food choices towards healthier, palatability mindset towards unhealthier choices in the first cohort, but not in the second. The mindset triggers had a more robust effect. These induced healthier (triggers for healthy and not-palatable) and unhealthier (triggers for unhealthy and palatable) food choices in both cohorts alike. Interestingly, these effects did not tamper with the overall effect of Pavlovian cues and were thus true in the presence and absence of food-context stimuli. Therefore, we show that, in our experimental setting, food-associated mindset triggers can be used to bias food choices towards a healthy snack even in an obesogenic environment.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Cue-dependent ; Food Choice ; Instrumental Behavior ; Mindset ; Pavlovian-to-instrumental Transfer; Pavlovian-instrumental Transfer; Sensitivity; Attention; Consumers; Obesity
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0195-6663
e-ISSN
1095-8304
Journal
Appetite
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Volume: 166,
Article Number: 105476
Publisher
Elsevier
Publishing Place
Amsterdam [u.a.]
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Peer reviewed
Grants
German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG)