Social proof in the supermarket: Promoting healthy choices under low self-control conditions

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 45, Issue , 2015, Pages 113-120

  Salmon, Stefanie J ^a,c   De Vet, Emely ^b   Adriaanse, Marieke A ^c   Fennis, Bob M ^a   Veltkamp, Martijn ^d   De Ridder, Denise T D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d FrieslandCampina ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ego depletion; Field study; Food choice; Heuristics; Self control; Social proof

Indexed keywords

EID: 84935024075     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2015.06.004     Document Type: Article

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