2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2008.03.010
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Children's use of adult testimony to guide food selection

Abstract: We hypothesized that children's reliance on adults' testimony regarding food choices would diminish when adults were shown to be unreliable informants by expressing liking for foods the children disliked. In 3 studies, 3-to 6-year-old children observed an adult expressing liking for food and nonfood items that were either the same as or opposite the child's stated hedonic assessments. Even after having observed an adult express liking for stimuli the children disliked, children still selected the item which th… Show more

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“…In our sample, there were less favourable attitudes towards salmon and trout, which contrasted with Honkanen and colleague's (2004) study of older children. A possible explanation may be young children's preferences for the soft textures of processed products (Zeinstra et al, 2007).. We confirmed our expectations that children, to a much higher degree than adults, have a tendency to build their attitudes on positive and negative affective associations (Borgers et al, 2000;Aikmanet al, 2006;Lumeng et al, 2008). Children with positive attitudes towards seafood explained that eating seafood made them happy, while those who did not like seafood felt disgusted while eating it.…”
Section: Summary and Discussionsupporting
confidence: 77%
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“…In our sample, there were less favourable attitudes towards salmon and trout, which contrasted with Honkanen and colleague's (2004) study of older children. A possible explanation may be young children's preferences for the soft textures of processed products (Zeinstra et al, 2007).. We confirmed our expectations that children, to a much higher degree than adults, have a tendency to build their attitudes on positive and negative affective associations (Borgers et al, 2000;Aikmanet al, 2006;Lumeng et al, 2008). Children with positive attitudes towards seafood explained that eating seafood made them happy, while those who did not like seafood felt disgusted while eating it.…”
Section: Summary and Discussionsupporting
confidence: 77%
“…However, children's limited cognitive abilities may limit the effect of attitude change (John, 1999). They have a higher tendency than adults to build their attitudes on affect and hedonistic feelings (Borgers, et al 2000;Lumeng et al, 2008). This may be a reason why children and young consumers are less concerned about healthy food (Berg et al, 2000;Honkanen et al, 2004).…”
Section: Children's Attitude Towards Seafoodmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…-426-what not to eat may rely more heavily on listening to trusted adults and imitating their food choices, which does not require disgust (Lumeng, Cardinal, Jankowski, Kaciroti, and Gelman, 2008;Shutts et al, 2013;Shutts, Kinzler, McKee, and Spelke, 2009). Other earlyemerging computational mechanisms may also contribute to the avoidance of certain categories of potentially harmful substances (e.g., Wertz and Wynn, 2014), and again these likely arise independently of disgust.…”
Section: Evolution Development and Disgustmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…This may be one route via which using food to regulate emotion or reward oneself following a difficult or stressful day becomes a learned behavior in children. Furthermore, modeling powerfully shapes children’s eating behaviors (Birch, 1980; Frazier, Gelman, Kaciroti, Russell, & Lumeng, 2012; Lumeng, Cardinal, Jankowski, Kaciroti, & Gelman, 2008). Thus, children may learn these behaviors from adults who model using food to manage emotion or stress.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%