The psychology of food choice /

• Corporate Author: Nutrition Society (Great Britain)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, in association with the Nutrition Society, 2006.
• Series: Frontiers in nutritional science ; no. 3.
• Subjects: Food habits > Psychological aspects.; Food Preferences > psychology.; Food Habits > psychology.; Emotions.; Age Factors.; Mass Media.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Human Nutrition (General); Diet Studies.; Man.; Behaviour.; Diet.; Feeding behaviour.; Food preferences.; Psychology.; Sociology.; Electronic books.
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This book brings together insights from a number of sub-disciplines within psychology and other related disciplines, in terms of what they can tell about influences on human food choice. It is organized into 5 main sections which cover models of food choice; biological and learning influences on foo...

Table of Contents:

• A conceptual model of the food choice process over the life course / Jeffery Sobal, Carole A. Bisogni, Carol M. Devine and Margaret Jastran
• 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 R. 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, Christina Clark, Glenda McCartney, Julie Barnett and Orla Muldoon
• 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 automatization 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 J. Bowen and Tracy Hilliard
• Eating behaviour in obesity / Jane Wardle.