Investigations of the contribution of food costs to socioeconomic inequalities in diet quality may have been limited by the use of estimated (vs. actual) food expenditures, not accounting for where individuals shop, and possible reverse mediation between food expenditures and healthiness of food choices. This study aimed to explore the extent to which food expenditure mediates socioeconomic ine...

OBJECTIVE Sometimes the suspicion is put forward that nutrition students show more disordered eating patterns, which may be among the motivating factors to study nutrition. At the same time, it is not clear whether the students' increasing knowledge about diet and nutrition is associated with a more healthy eating behaviour or with an unhealthy obsession with food choices. DESIGN Cross-sectio...

Consumers choose less unhealthy food when seeing pictures of shot in a top perspective vs. diner’s eye perspective. These two commonly used perspectives respectively show the vertically downwards, or mimic viewing point person sitting at table, looking front them on table. Although both are frequently pictures, consumers more to their from We that lower familiarity with (vs. perspective) decrea...

This article is based on a qualitative study exploring parents’ attitudes and perceptions of their role in their children’s eating habits in schools in Angus, Scotland. Parents believed they had different degrees of influence on their children’s eating habits. This article will examine these different perceptions of parental responsibility for children’s eating habits to explore how parents vie...

Primates’ food preferences are typically assessed under conditions of certainty. To increase ecological validity, and to explore primates’ decision making from a comparative perspective, we tested three primate species (Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, Macaca fuscata) (N = 18) in two food-preference tests that created different uncertainty. In the first, showed subjects pairs photograp...

Neuro-imaging holds great potential for predicting choice behavior from brain responses. In this study we used both traditional mass-univariate and state-of-the-art multivariate pattern analysis to establish which brain regions respond to preferred packages and to what extent neural activation patterns can predict realistic low-involvement consumer choices. More specifically, this was assessed ...