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This experimental study investigated whether children’s food intake is influenced by a peer’s intake directly and over time and whether this depends upon weight status. The study consisted of two sessions taking place at Dutch primary schools. During the first (social modeling) session, the participants (N=223) were asked to solve a puzzle with a same-sex normal weight confederate who was instructed...
This study aimed to validate the ability of a 24-h food diary (the DIET-24) to accurately detect change in children’s fruit and vegetable consumption at school snack time following implementation of the Food Dudes healthy eating intervention. Participants were 4- to 9-year-old children from two primary schools in England. There were 148 participants in the intervention school and 43 participants in...
The role of children’s personality traits in the consumption of potentially obesogenic foods was investigated in a sample of Norwegian children aged 6–12years (N=327, 170 boys, 157 girls). Mothers rated their child’s personality on the traits of the Five Factor Model (i.e., extraversion, benevolence, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and imagination). Mothers also completed a food frequency questionnaire...
The present study investigated whether the familiarity with and affective responses to foods are predicted by the individual trait food neophobia and by parental education in school children. The cross-sectional data collection involved children (N=208, 8- and 11-year-old) from Helsinki, and their parents. A questionnaire assessing children’s food neophobia with Food Neophobia Scale (FNS), and familiarity...
Vegetable consumption is low among many children. This study compared the efficacy of the exposure learning strategies mere exposure, flavour–flavour and flavour–nutrient learning in changing children’s intake of a novel vegetable. An unmodified artichoke purée was served at pre-testing. Hereafter children were exposed 10 times to unmodified purée (mere exposure, n=32), a sweetened purée (flavour–flavour...
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