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Spreading The Health: Americans’ Estimated And Ideal Distributions Of Death And Health(care)

Recent debates in the United States about universal health care – with some viewing the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”) as a moral imperative but others viewing Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Sorapop Kiatpongsan, Michael I. Norton
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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‘Does This Tax Make Me Look Fat?’: Using Stigma Inducing Labels To Decrease Unhealthy Food

Obesity and unhealthy food consumption are two of the largest public health concerns nationwide. Obesity rates have more than doubled in the past few decades. While there is debate regarding the Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Avni Shah, James R. Bettman, Punam Anand Keller, Peter Ubel
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Is Self-Serving Self-Serving? Who Serves Food Shapes Self-evaluation And Eating Decisions

Eating meals that are served by someone else is commonplace: 50% of all meals are consumed away from the home, and two-thirds of Americans eat out at least every other day (Stewart, Blisard, and Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Linda Hagen, Aradhna Krishna, Brent McFerran
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Virtual Learning About Alcohol Through Narrative Transportation Into Television Episodes

This research focuses on the health implications of immersing oneself into a virtual story, in our case, a fictional television episode. We pursue this research question in the context of a major Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Cristel Antonia Russell, Edward F. McQuarrie
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Reward Substitution: Incentivizing Consumers To Choose Smaller Portion Sizes

In many societies, food has become abundant and calorie-rich. A pandemic of obesity has ensued, with high costs to governments, businesses, and consumers. The medical sciences’ remedy to this is Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Martin Reimann, Deborah MacInnis, Antoine Bechara
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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