Stress and Food Preferences: A Lab Experiment with Low-Ses Mothers

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Daily stressors and food choices: A lab experiment with low-SES mothers

“…The questionnaire furthermore included questions about the stressfulness of the stress/control task, chronic stress, participants' coping behaviours when dealing with stress, and about potentially stressful events during the last 3 months as well as during the pregnancy. The data collected in this questionnaire is used in Belot et al (2020b) to examine the link between chronic maternal stress during pregnancy and children's food preferences.…”