A picture-flavour paradigm for studying complex conditioning processes in food preference learning

Appetite

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 303-308

  Kerkhof, Inneke ^a   Vansteenwegen, Debora ^a   Baeyens, Frank ^a   Hermans, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Affective priming; Evaluative conditioning; Food attitudes; Indirect measure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT;

ATTITUDE; COLOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; TASTE; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70449726708     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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