Does Reducing Nutritional Information Complexity Promote Healthier Food Choices?
The Nutritional Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) was one of the biggest efforts by policy makers to promote healthy eating among Americans. Unfortunately, it has failed to curb the obesity epidemic,
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2013
• #Product Labeling
‘Does This Tax Make Me Look Fat?’: Using Stigma Inducing Labels to Decrease Unhealthy Food Consumption
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
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2013
• #Public Health
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
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2013
• #Public Health
Avoiding Behavioral Resistance to Diet and Exercise Messages
People are exposed to many persuasive health messages that encourage them to become healthy in different ways. For instance, some messages encourage people to eat healthy and diet, and other messages
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2013
• #Marketing Messaging
“This Isn’t So Bad”: Assimilation, Contrast, and Self Control on Healthiness Perceptions
Assimilation and contrast effects play an important role in the way consumers make judgments (Parducci 1992; Schwarz and Bless 1992b). The order of information, in particular, may have a contextual
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2013
• #Personal Choice
The Consuming City: Economic Stratification and the Glasgow Effect
This presentation will focus on the city of Glasgow (located within the central belt of Scotland) and explore the way its economic development is influenced by ideological, socio-cultural and
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2013
• #Economic Marginalisation
Controlling Consumption: The Illusiveness and Pervasiveness of Gender Stratifications in the Ugandan Marketplace
In Uganda, as women become more educated and employed, and as laws are enacted to protect their rights, male economic power might be expected to erode. Ideologies, however, continue to uphold the
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2013
• #Discrimination
Viewing the Creation and Reproduction of Racial Stratification through Consumption: Life Histories of the Black Middle-Class in America
This research documents the racial stratification that occurs in the marketplace of America as consumer culture attains dominance in the mid-twentieth century. The history of consumer culture in the
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2013
• #Social Division