Behavioural effects of directive cues on front-of-package nutrition information: The combination matters!

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2115-2121

  Koenigstorfer, Joerg ^a   Wa̧sowicz Kiryło, Grazyna ^b   Styśko Kunkowska, Małgorzata ^b   Groeppel Klein, Andrea ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Health marks; Nutrition information; Traffic light colours; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANALYSIS; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PRESERVATION; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OCULOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; CUES; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FAST FOODS; FEMALE; FOOD LABELING; FOOD, PRESERVED; GERMANY; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; SNACKS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905265975     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136898001300219X     Document Type: Article

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