Using health primes to reduce unhealthy snack purchases among overweight consumers in a grocery store

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 597-602

  Papies, E K ^a   Potjes, I ^a   Keesman, M ^a   Schwinghammer, S ^b   Van Koningsbruggen, G M ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

behavior change; food choice; grocery shopping; intervention; priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH PRIME; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUNGER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURCHASING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHOPPING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DECISION MAKING; DIET; EVALUATION STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH PROMOTION; IMPULSIVENESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLICATION;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMERCE; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD PREFERENCES; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; OBESITY; PAMPHLETS; SNACKS;

EID: 84898042617     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: 14765497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2013.136     Document Type: Article

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