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Working Out Consumption: Designing A Robust Information Intervention For Healthful Eating

Providing consumers with calorie information has received a great deal of attention, as municipalities such as New York City have mandated greater disclosure and retailers (including Panera and Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Indranil Goswami, Oleg Urminsky
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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From Fan To Fat?: Vicarious Losing Increases Unhealthy Eating, But Self-Affirmation Is An Effective

Sport watching is more popular than ever: 108 million Americans watched the 2013 NFL Super Bowl and 2.2 billion people watched the 2010 FIFA soccer World Cup. Using archival and experimental data, we Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Yann Cornil, Pierre Chandon
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Spreading The Health: Americans’ Estimated And Ideal Distributions Of Death And Health(care)

Recent debates in the United States about universal health care – with some viewing the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”) as a moral imperative but others viewing Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Sorapop Kiatpongsan, Michael I. Norton
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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‘Does This Tax Make Me Look Fat?’: Using Stigma Inducing Labels To Decrease Unhealthy Food

Obesity and unhealthy food consumption are two of the largest public health concerns nationwide. Obesity rates have more than doubled in the past few decades. While there is debate regarding the Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Avni Shah, James R. Bettman, Punam Anand Keller, Peter Ubel
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Is Self-Serving Self-Serving? Who Serves Food Shapes Self-evaluation And Eating Decisions

Eating meals that are served by someone else is commonplace: 50% of all meals are consumed away from the home, and two-thirds of Americans eat out at least every other day (Stewart, Blisard, and Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Linda Hagen, Aradhna Krishna, Brent McFerran
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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