Healthy food products at the point of purchase: An in-store experimental analysis

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 151-154

  Sigurdsson, Valdimar ^a   Larsen, Nils Magne ^b   Gunnarsson, Didrik ^b  

^a REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

consumer behavior; healthy food choice; in store experiments; motivating operations; stimulus control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897665724     PISSN: 00218855     EISSN: 19383703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jaba.91     Document Type: Article

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