Chan, E and Zhang, LS orcid.org/0000-0002-7512-9605 (2022) Is this food healthy? The impact of lay beliefs and contextual cues on food healthiness perception and consumption. Current Opinion in Psychology, 46. 101348. p. 101348. ISSN 2352-250X
Abstract
Is this food healthy? Understanding how individuals evaluate food healthiness is important because their evaluation can affect their food choices and consumption quantities, potentially leading to obesity and other health problems. However, individuals often find it difficult to process the health information to evaluate food healthiness, so they rely on their intuition or lay beliefs to make the judgment. This article reviews recent empirical findings to highlight how individuals use lay beliefs based on sensory cues (e.g., visual, taste) and cognitive cues (e.g., nutrition label, price) to infer food healthiness and how this perception of food healthiness affects their food consumption. We conclude by discussing possible future opportunities in lay beliefs and food perception.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article, published in Current Opinion in Psychology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Lay beliefs; Food; Healthy; Contextual cues |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Marketing Division (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2023 10:47 |
Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2023 00:13 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101348 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101348 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:195024 |
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