Self-Control Success Revealed: Greater Approach Motivation Towards Healthy versus Unhealthy Food

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 846-853
Author(s):  
Tracy Cheung ◽  
Marleen Gillebaart ◽  
Floor Kroese ◽  
Denise de Ridder
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Approach Motivation ◽  
Unhealthy Food

scholarly journals Resisting temptation of unhealthy food: interaction between temptation-elicited goal activation and self-control

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashleigh Haynes ◽  
Eva Kemps ◽  
Robyn Moffitt ◽  
Philip Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Food Interaction ◽  
Goal Activation

Calorie Labeling Promotes Dietary Self-Control by Shifting the Temporal Dynamics of Health- and Taste-Attribute Integration in Overweight Individuals

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung-Lark Lim ◽  
Molly T. Penrod ◽  
Oh-Ryeong Ha ◽  
Jared M. Bruce ◽  
Amanda S. Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Decision Process ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Choice Task ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Relative Speed ◽  
Calorie Labeling ◽  
Health Related

Understanding why people make unhealthy food choices and how to promote healthier choices is critical to prevent obesity. Unhealthy food choices may occur when individuals fail to consider health attributes as quickly as taste attributes in their decisions, and this bias may be modifiable by health-related external cues. One hundred seventy-eight participants performed a mouse-tracking food-choice task with and without calorie information. With the addition of calorie information, participants made healthier choices. Without calorie information, the initial integration of health attributes in overweight individuals’ decisions was about 230 ms delayed relative to the taste attributes, but calorie labeling promoted healthier choices by speeding up the integration of health attributes during a food-choice task. Our study suggests that obesogenic choices are related to the relative speed with which taste and health attributes are integrated into the decision process and that this bias is modifiable by external health-related cues.

scholarly journals Trait approach motivation moderates the aftereffects of self-control

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Crowell ◽  
Nicholas J. Kelley ◽  
Brandon J. Schmeichel
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Approach Motivation

scholarly journals Taxation of unhealthy food consumption and the intensive versus extensive margin of obesity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zarko Y. Kalamov ◽  
Marco Runkel
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Health Costs ◽  
Calorie Intake ◽  
Control Problems ◽  
Extensive Margin ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Weight Problem ◽  
Empirical Calibration ◽  
The Individual

AbstractIf an individual’s health costs are U-shaped in weight with a minimum at some healthy level and if the individual has both self-control problems and rational motives for over- or underweight, the optimal paternalistic tax on calorie intake mitigates the individual’s weight problem (intensive margin), but does not induce the individual to choose healthy weight (extensive margin). Implementing healthy weight by a calorie tax is not only inferior to paternalistic taxation, but may even be worse than not taxing the individual at all. With heterogeneous individuals, the optimal uniform paternalistic tax may have the negative side effect of reducing calorie intake of the under- and normal weights. We confirm these theoretical insights by an empirical calibration to US adults.

How Love and Lust Influence Self-Control

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-189
Author(s):  
Minjung Kwon ◽  
Youngjee Han
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Control Behavior

We investigated how love versus lust influences an individual's self-control behavior. We anticipated that individuals primed with love would show a higher degree of self-control than those primed with lust. In Experiment 1 (N = 236 participants), we examined how a hypothetical choice between a healthy and an unhealthy food was influenced by priming with love or lust, and found that participants were more likely to prefer a healthy option when primed with love than when primed with lust. In Experiment 2 (N = 94 participants), we examined our hypothesis with the actual consumption of an unhealthy food, and found that people consumed more of an unhealthy food when primed with lust. Our findings not only contribute to the understanding of love and lust but also broaden the horizons of research on variables that influence self-control.

Exercising self-control increases approach motivation.

2010 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon J. Schmeichel ◽  
Cindy Harmon-Jones ◽  
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Approach Motivation

scholarly journals Attract the best: The attraction effect as an effective strategy to enhance healthy choices

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0259521
Author(s):  
Gitta van den Enden ◽  
Kelly Geyskens
Keyword(s):  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Attraction Effect ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Healthy Choice ◽  
Control Situation ◽  
Food Decisions ◽  
Choice Set

Every day, people make many food decisions without thinking, repeatedly falling for the unhealthy option instead of the healthy option. While making these mindless decisions, people often rely on heuristics. In this paper, we demonstrate that these heuristics can be exploited to nudge consumers towards healthy alternatives. Specifically, we explore how the attraction effect (i.e., adding a decoy to a choice set) can nudge people to choose a healthy snack. The results of our choice experiment indicate that adding a decoy (i.e., a less attractive food alternative) to a self-control situation (i.e., choosing between a healthy and an unhealthy food alternative) can help people maintain self-control and choose the healthy option. This mixed choice set thus nudges people towards the healthy option. Moreover, our results show differential effects of the attraction effect depending on the (un)healthiness of the products in the choice set. Specifically, the attraction effect is prominent when the choice set consists of unhealthy products only (i.e., the unhealthy choice set), but not in the choice set that consists of only healthy products (i.e., healthy choice set). Importantly, our results indicate when the attraction effect can exploit consumers’ heuristics to help them make better, healthier food choices.

Effects of Trait Self-Control on Response Conflict About Healthy and Unhealthy Food

2015 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 789-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marleen Gillebaart ◽  
Iris K. Schneider ◽  
Denise T. D. De Ridder
Keyword(s):  
Response Conflict ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Unhealthy Food
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