Obiettivo The prevalence of obesity and overweight has increased dramatically over the last few decades, especially in Europe. In addition to genetic determinants, societal changes, worldwide nutrition trends, and market forces, like larger serving sizes, are often cited as driving the obesity epidemic. Together, these trends created an ‘obesogenic environment’ characterized by a multitude of unhealthy and easily accessible temptations which led to an enormous increase in the consumption of fattening snacks. Health organizations and consumers themselves introduce and apply strategies to reduce the temptation strength of unhealthy foods (e.g. stimulating low-fat products and rationing the purchase quantities) because they belief they can combat the obesity epidemic in this way. A number of academic findings supports this belief by showing that exposure to palatable foods activates a craving for food and stimulates eating behavior. However, some recent studies demonstrate that some of these activities can backfire because temptations may also activate counteractive self-control helping individuals stick to their goals. In sum, conflicting findings exist on the effect of food temptations on consumers’ ability to control their food intake, which urge for proper investigation in order to get a deeper insight in the effects and processes underlying them. We will start by looking at social psychological theories that can give insights in which factors determine the direction of the effect of food temptations on consumers’ self-control which will result in an adaptation of the psychological model into a consumer behavior oriented model. In a next step, the adapted model will be tested in a meta-analytic study. It is of high importance for public policy and marketers to know under which conditions food temptations (dis)enhance self-control. In this way, the findings can be used for the development of more efficient strategies to combat the obesity epidemic. Campo scientifico social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiespublic policiessocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmicroeconomicssocial sciencespsychologysocial psychologymedical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutritionobesity Programma(i) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Argomento(i) FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF - Marie Curie Action: "Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development" Invito a presentare proposte FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) Coordinatore UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT Contributo UE € 168 035,20 Indirizzo MINDERBROEDERSBERG 4 6200 MD Maastricht Paesi Bassi Mostra sulla mappa Regione Zuid-Nederland Limburg (NL) Zuid-Limburg Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contatto amministrativo Martinus Gerardus Maria Wetzels (Prof.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato
