A major determinant of human eating behavior is social modeling, whereby people use
others' eating as a guide for what and how much to eat. We review the experimental studies …

I define “sensory marketing” as “marketing that engages the consumers' senses and affects
their perception, judgment and behavior.” From a managerial perspective, sensory …

We examine the effectiveness in field settings of seven healthy eating nudges, classified
according to whether they are (1) cognitively oriented, such as “descriptive nutritional …

Here, we review the research we have conducted on social contagion. We describe the
methods we have employed (and the assumptions they have entailed) to examine several …

This research examines how people react to nonconforming behaviors, such as entering a
luxury boutique wearing gym clothes rather than an elegant outfit or wearing red sneakers in …

Food marketing is often singled out as the leading cause of the obesity epidemic. The
present review examines current food marketing practices to determine how exactly they …

This paper reviews some of the evidence that dietary behaviours are, in large part, the
consequence of automatic responses to contextual food cues, many of which lead to …

Objectives. We assessed whether a 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention
would increase sales of healthy food and beverages in a large hospital cafeteria. Methods …

Psychological research on behavior has waned in recent decades. One underappreciated
reason for this trend is that the field lacks a general-purpose framework targeted to the study …

Our fascination with eating and drinking behaviors and their causes has resulted in a huge
industry of food-related pop science. Every bookstore, every magazine stand, every grocery …