Healthy Food Choice: How Environment and Cognition Determine What We Eat
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............................................................................................................................ 33 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 34 Research Questions...................................................................................................................... 36 Method............................................................................................................................... 37 Environment Analysis ................................................................................................................. 37 Online Study................................................................................................................................ 38 Measures.......................................................................................................................................... 38 Participants ...................................................................................................................................... 40 Results ............................................................................................................................... 41 Comparison of environment, perceived, and analyzed complexity ............................. 41 Perceived cognitive complexity as predictor for the length of diet adherence ............................ 41 Discussion.......................................................................................................................... 43 Limitations................................................................................................................................... 45 Conclusions ................................................................................................................................. 46 References ......................................................................................................................... 47
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