Nudging healthier food and beverage choices through salience and priming. Evidence from a systematic review

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 51, Issue , 2016, Pages 47-64

  Wilson, Amy L ^a   Buckley, Elizabeth ^b   Buckley, Jonathan D ^b   Bogomolova, Svetlana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Choice architecture; Food and beverage choices; Nudging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959440933     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2016.02.009     Document Type: Review

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