The Western diet is a modern dietary pattern characterized by high intakes of pre-packaged
foods, refined grains, red meat, processed meat, high-sugar drinks, candy, sweets, fried …

The Social Norms Approach is a widely used intervention strategy for promoting positive
health-related behaviors. The Approach operates on the premise that individuals …

Objective: To discuss healthy diet from a psychological perspective by considering
definitions of healthy diet in terms of consumer understanding; the health effects of specific …

Social norms are implicit codes of conduct that provide a guide to appropriate action. There
is ample evidence that social norms about eating have a powerful effect on both food choice …

Objective Peers and siblings are considered an important influence on children's and
adolescents' food choice. However, there is a lack of studies examining how peer and …

Objective: To assess the relationship between exposure to social media food messages and
self-reported adolescent eating outcomes (including food intake, perceived norms and food …

Food marketing influences eating preferences and choices, especially among adolescents,
contributing to the rise of overweight, obesity, and other chronic health disorders. Recent …

Negative attitudes toward invertebrates are a deep-seated, visceral response among
Western peoples. These internalized aversions toward insects and other terrestrial …

There is interest in the hypothesis that social norms are a determinant of healthy and
unhealthy dietary practices. The objective of our work was to assess the weight of evidence …

In laboratory studies, exposure to social norm messages conveying the typical eating
behaviour of others has influenced participants' own consumption of food. Given the …