Nudge to nobesity I: Minor changes in accessibility decrease food intake

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 323-332

  Rozin, Paul ^a   Scott, Sydney ^a   Dingley, Megan ^a   Urbanek, Joanna K ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a   Kaltenbach, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Choice architecture; Environment; Nudge; Obesity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960040698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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