The importance of habits in eating behaviour. An overview and recommendations for future research

Riet, J. van't; Sijtsema, S.J.; Dagevos, H.; Bruijn, Gert-Jan de

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2011.07.010

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“…A large part of food choice is dependent on long--term food habits developed over many years and gendered or not, these practices are hard to change once embedded in daily life (van't Riet, Sijtsema, Dagevos, & De Bruijn, 2011). As Franks et al (2012) have shown, dietary changes are far more likely to be sustained when both members of a couple are at a similar high level of readiness to change.…”

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Gender relations and couple negotiations of British men's food practice changes after prostate cancer

Mróz

Robertson

2015

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Nutrition plays an important role in the health of men diagnosed with prostate cancer and dietary interventions can therefore be a significant part of prostate cancer survivorship supportive care. Family food provision, however, involves complex social interactions, which shape how men engage with their diets and dietary interventions. The role that gender plays in shaping prostate cancer couples' food practices and men's diets after a prostate cancer diagnosis is thought to be important but is little understood.This study explored couples' accounts of nutrition information seeking and diet change to gain a better understanding of how gender relations shaped men's food practices after prostate cancer diagnosis. Qualitative health interviews with men and their partners were conducted and analysed using interpretive descriptive methods.Findings demonstrated how couples navigated food change journeys that involved seeking information, deciding what changes were warranted and implementing and regulating diet changes. Two overarching themes that illustrated couples' food negotiations were called 'Seeking information and deciding on food changes' and 'Monitoring food changes'. Additional sub--themes described who led food changes, women's filtering of information, and moderation or 'treats'. Throughout these food change journeys interactions between men and women were at play, demonstrating how gender relations and dynamics acted to shape couples food negotiations and men's food practices.Findings reveal that attention to gender relations and the men's family food dynamics should inform diet interventions for men with prostate cancer in order to improve uptake.

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Gender relations and couple negotiations of British men's food practice changes after prostate cancer

Mróz

Robertson

2015

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“…According to Tobler et al [18], people who are more knowledgeable about climate change tend to exercise greater concern and feel more in control than others. However, knowledge alone is not enough: Humans are creatures of habit and habitual behavioral patterns prevent them from adopting a more climate-friendly lifestyle [19]. As habitual behavior is dependent on personal surroundings and, to a lesser extent, under greater intentional control than non-habitual behavior, traditional knowledge-oriented, educational approaches to change habits are not considered to be very effective [20][21][22].…”

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Fostering Sustainable Nutrition Behavior through Gamification

Berger

Schrader

2016

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Abstract:The food choices consumers make have considerable consequences for the environment. In the Western world, about one-third of all negative environmental impact is directly related to food consumption. Although many consumers are concerned about environmental issues, this frequently has little effect on actual nutritional behavior and new approaches are needed to convert good intentions into action. Gamification could be a possible way to encourage both self-efficacy on the part of the consumer as well as normalizing such behavior socially. In this paper, central elements of the behavioral change model HAPA (health action process approach) are introduced to a gamification concept. The underlying frameworks of both concepts are then analyzed in order to develop propositions for use in the design of an effective gamification setting to promote sustainable nutritional behavior (SNB).

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“…Studies in neuroscience and social psychology suggest not only that perspective taking is an individual difference variable, but that the experiences of others are more likely to affect an observer when the context induces a first-person perspective compared to the typical third-person perspective (Jackson, Meltzoff, & Decety, 2006;Lamm, Batson, & Decety, 2007;Storms, 1973). Accordingly, in Study 2, we presented videos to participants from either a first-person or a thirdperson perspective.…”

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The power of movement: Evidence for context-independent movement imitation.

Genschow¹,

Florack²,

Wänke³

2013

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Recent studies have shown that individuals often imitate the behavior of others. In these studies, the observed and imitated behaviors were always identical. The present research goes one step further and disentangles the imitation of movements from their behavioral contexts. On the basis of theories that the perception of behavior refers to the same mental representations as the execution, we found that imitation is not confined to the same class of behaviors but rather to the same class of movements that may be involved in different behaviors. Four studies demonstrated that watching an athlete lifting a barbell leads to an increase in participants' drink intake when drinking involved a similar movement (lifting a cup) but not when drinking did not involve a lifting movement (drinking through a tube). The effects were stronger for individuals high in perspective taking (Study 1) and for situations in which the perspective was manipulated to be similar to the observed actor's (Study 2). These findings demonstrate the power of movements in imitation processes, suggesting that shared goal representation is not necessary for imitating others' movements.

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The importance of habits in eating behaviour. An overview and recommendations for future research

Cited by 311 publications

References 111 publications

Gender relations and couple negotiations of British men's food practice changes after prostate cancer

Gender relations and couple negotiations of British men's food practice changes after prostate cancer

Fostering Sustainable Nutrition Behavior through Gamification

The power of movement: Evidence for context-independent movement imitation.

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