The Psychology of Food Choice (Frontiers in Nutritional Science)

One of the central problems in nutrition is the difficulty of getting people to change their dietary behaviours so as to bring about an improvement in health. What is required is a clearer understanding of the motivations of consumers, barriers to changing diets and how we might have an impact upon dietary behaviour. This book brings together theory, research and applications from psychology and behavioural sciences applied to dietary behaviour. The authors are all international leaders in their respective fields and together give an overview of the current understanding of consumer food choice. Contents......Page 5 Contributors......Page 7 Preface......Page 9 1. A Conceptual Model of the Food Choice Process over the Life Course......Page 11 2. The Integration of Biological, Social, Cultural and Psychological Influences on Food Choice......Page 29 3. Social Psychological Models of Food Choice......Page 51 4. Biological Influences on Energy Intake......Page 69 5. Food Neophobia in Humans......Page 85 6. The Role of Learning in Development of Food Preferences......Page 103 7. Mood, Emotions and Food Choice......Page 123 8. Food Cravings and Addictions......Page 151 9. Marketing Parameters and their Influence on Consumer Food Choice......Page 171 10. The Role of Context in Food Choice, Food Acceptance and Food Consumption......Page 189 11. The Impact of the Media on Food Choice......Page 211 12. The Impact of Advertising on Food Choice: the Social Context of Advertising......Page 237 13. Adolescents, Food Choice and Vegetarianism......Page 257 14. Intra-family Influences on Food Choice at Mid-life......Page 273 15. Food Choices in Later Life......Page 299 16. The Impact of Optimistic Bias on Dietary Behaviour......Page 321 17. Implementation Intentions: Strategic Automatization of Food Choice......Page 339 18. The Use of the Stages of Change Model with Dietary Behaviours......Page 355 19. What is a Healthy Diet Community?......Page 367 20. Eating Behaviour in Obesity......Page 385 A......Page 399 B......Page 400 C......Page 401 E......Page 402 G......Page 403 I......Page 404 M......Page 405 O......Page 406 R......Page 407 S......Page 408 W......Page 409 A conceptual model of the food choice process over the life course / Jeffery Sobal ... [et al.] The integration of biological, social, cultural, and psychological influences on food choice / Paul Rozin Social psychological models of food choice / Mark Conner and Christopher J. Armitage Biological influences on energy intake / Klaas Westerterp Food neophobia in humans / Patricia Pliner and Sarah-Jeanne Salvy The role of learning in development of food preference / Martin R. Yeomans Mood, emotions, and food choice / E. L. Gibson Food cravings and addictions / Suzanne Higgs Marketing parameters and their influence on consumer food choice / Klaus G. Grunert The role of context in food choice, food acceptance, and food consumption / Herbert L. Meiselman The impact of the media on food choice / Jacquie Reilly The impact of advertising on food choice : the social context of advertising / Martin Caraher and Jane Landon Adolescents, food choice, and vegetarianism / Karen Trew ... [et al.] Intra-family influences on food choice at mid-life / J. Lynne Brown Food choices in later life / Margaret Lumbers and Monique Raats The impact of optimistic bias on dietary behaviour / Vicky Scaife, Susan Miles, and Peter Harris Implementation intentions : strategic automatisation of food choice / Thomas L. Webb, Paschal Sheeran, and Christopher J. Armitage The use of the stages of change model with dietary behaviours / Richard Shepherd What is a healthy diet community? / Deborah Bowen and Tracy Hilliard Eating behaviour in obesity / Jane Wardle. One of the central problems in nutrition is the difficulty of getting people to change their dietary behaviours so as to bring about an improvement in health. What is required is a clearer understanding of the motivations of consumers, barriers to changing diets and how we might have an impact upon dietary behaviour. This book brings together insights from a number of sub-disciplines within psychology and related discplines, in terms of what they can tell us about the influence on human food choice. It is organised into five main sections which cover: models of food choice; biological and learning influences on food choice; societal influences; food choices across the lifespan; and changing dietary behaviour. The contributors are all international leaders in their respective fields and together give an overview of the current understanding of consumer food choice. This book will be of significant interest to those researching nutrition, dietetics and psychology. One of the central problems in nutrition is the difficulty of getting people to change their dietary behaviors so as to bring about an improvement in health. What is required is a clearer understanding of the motivations of consumers, barriers to changing diets and how we might have an impact upon dietary behavior. This book brings together insights from a number of sub-disciplines within psychology and related disciplines, in terms of what they can tell us about the influence on human food choice. It is organized into five main sections that cover models of food choice, biological and learning influences on food choice, societal influences on food choice, food choices across the lifespan, and changing dietary behavior One of the problems in nutrition is the difficulty of getting people to change their dietary behaviours so as to bring about an improvement in health. This book brings together theory, research and applications from psychology and behavioural sciences applied to dietary behaviour. It gives an overview of the understanding of consumer food choice Focusing on the impact of globalization and on the constraints imposed by the changes in the world's production and trade, this book examines the opportunities open to the least developed countries as they design their strategies to accelerate growth and alleviate poverty.