Food Preferences

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A case study in behavioral analysis, synthesis and attention to detail: social learning of food preferences. 
  • A randomized school trial of environmental strategies to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption among children. 
  • A review of environmental influences on food choices. 
  • Actions necessary to prevent childhood obesity: creating the climate for change. 
  • Adolescent Snacking Behaviors Are Associated with Dietary Intake and Weight Status. 
  • Alcoholic beverage preference, diet, and health habits in the UNC Alumni Heart Study. 
  • An environmental intervention to promote lower-fat food choices in secondary schools: outcomes of the TACOS Study. 
  • An observational study of consumers' accessing of nutrition information in chain restaurants. 
  • Animals lacking endothelin-converting enzyme-2 are deficient in learning and memory. 
  • Are 'competitive foods' sold at school making our children fat? 
  • Are diet and physical activity patterns related to cigarette smoking in adolescents? Findings from Project EAT. 
  • Association of Picky Eating With Weight Status and Dietary Quality Among Low-Income Preschoolers. 
  • Availability of a la carte food items in junior and senior high schools: a needs assessment. 
  • Bacterial infection early in life protects against stressor-induced depressive-like symptoms in adult rats. 
  • Behavioral and circuit basis of sucrose rejection by Drosophila females in a simple decision-making task. 
  • Behavioral characterization of P311 knockout mice. 
  • Bonobos and chimpanzees exhibit human-like framing effects. 
  • Calcium and dairy intake: Longitudinal trends during the transition to young adulthood and correlates of calcium intake. 
  • Calcium and dairy intakes of adolescents are associated with their home environment, taste preferences, personal health beliefs, and meal patterns. 
  • Calorie menu labeling on quick-service restaurant menus: an updated systematic review of the literature. 
  • Can food be addictive? Public health and policy implications. 
  • Changes in diet quality of American preschoolers between 1977 and 1998. 
  • Chimpanzees and bonobos distinguish between risk and ambiguity. 
  • Chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit emotional responses to decision outcomes. 
  • Cholecystokinin, diet palatability, and feeding regulation in rats. 
  • Chronic mild stress-induced anhedonia: greater effect in a genetic rat model of depression. 
  • Cognitive and demographic correlates of low-fat vending snack choices among adolescents and adults. 
  • Community dwelling elderly are appropriate subjects for intensive dietary choice restriction studies. 
  • Comparison of price change and health message interventions in promoting healthy food choices. 
  • Conditioned changes in appetitive and consummatory responses to flavors paired with oral or nutrient reinforcement among adult rats. 
  • Consumers' Response to an On-Shelf Nutrition Labelling System in Supermarkets: Evidence to Inform Policy and Practice. 
  • Consumption Of Specific Foods And Beverages And Excess Weight Gain Among Children And Adolescents. 
  • Correlates of fruit and vegetable intake among adolescents. Findings from Project EAT. 
  • Creating healthy food and eating environments: policy and environmental approaches. 
  • Daytime spikes in dopaminergic activity drive rapid mood-cycling in mice. 
  • Development and implementation of a visual card-sorting technique for assessing food and activity preferences and patterns in African American girls. 
  • Developmental diazinon neurotoxicity in rats: later effects on emotional response. 
  • Dietary and physical activity patterns: examining fathers' perspectives. 
  • Different mechanisms for social transmission of diet preference in rat pups of different ages. 
  • Direct and indirect behavioral pathways to the social transmission of food avoidance. 
  • Disparities in dietary intake, meal patterning, and home food environments among young adult nonstudents and 2- and 4-year college students. 
  • Distribution of GABAA receptors in the limbic system of alcohol-preferring and non-preferring rats: in situ hybridisation histochemistry and receptor autoradiography. 
  • Do young children instinctively know what to eat? The studies of Clara Davis revisited. 
  • Dopamine levels modulate the updating of tastant values. 
  • Dopamine polymorphisms and depressive symptoms predict foods intake. Results from a nationally representative sample. 
  • Downregulation of NR3A-containing NMDARs is required for synapse maturation and memory consolidation. 
  • Drinking from arboreal water sources by mantled howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata Gray). 
  • Eat now or later: self-control as an overlapping cognitive mechanism of depression and obesity. 
  • Effect of vertical sleeve gastrectomy in melanocortin receptor 4-deficient rats. 
  • Effect of vertical sleeve gastrectomy on food selection and satiation in rats. 
  • Effects of chronic mild stress on serum complement activity, saccharin preference, and corticosterone levels in Flinders lines of rats. 
  • Emerging adulthood and college-aged youth: an overlooked age for weight-related behavior change. 
  • Evaluating the impact of menu labeling on food choices and intake. 
  • Evaluation of consumer understanding of different front-of-package nutrition labels, 2010-2011. 
  • Experimental analysis of the effect of taxes and subsides on calories purchased in an on-line supermarket. 
  • Factors associated with choice of a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet during a behavioral weight loss intervention. 
  • Factors associated with soft drink consumption in school-aged children. 
  • Factors in the school cafeteria influencing food choices by high school students. 
  • Factors influencing food choices of adolescents: findings from focus-group discussions with adolescents. 
  • Feeding Strategies Derived from Behavioral Economics and Psychology Can Increase Vegetable Intake in Children as Part of a Home-Based Intervention: Results of a Pilot Study. 
  • Food choices of young African-American and Latino adolescents: where do parents fit in? 
  • Food cravings and food consumption after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass versus cholecystectomy. 
  • Food environment in secondary schools: a la carte, vending machines, and food policies and practices. 
  • Food habits and dietary change of Southeast Asian refugee families living in the United States. 
  • Food preferences and weight change during low-fat and low-carbohydrate diets. 
  • Food preferences, beliefs, and practices of Southeast Asian refugee adolescents. 
  • Food reward in the absence of taste receptor signaling. 
  • Food-related beliefs, eating behavior, and classroom food practices of middle school teachers. 
  • Foods on students' trays when they leave the cafeteria line as a proxy for foods eaten at lunch in a school-based study. 
  • Foodservice staff perceptions of their influence on student food choices. 
  • Fruits and vegetables taken can serve as a proxy measure for amounts eaten in a school lunch. 
  • Further selection of rat lines differing in 5-HT-1A receptor sensitivity: behavioral and functional correlates. 
  • Great apes prefer cooked food. 
  • Guess who's cooking? The role of men in meal planning, shopping, and preparation in US families. 
  • How to spend a token? Trade-offs between food variety and food preference in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). 
  • How we eat what we eat: identifying meal routines and practices most strongly associated with healthy and unhealthy dietary factors among young adults. 
  • Impact of garden-based youth nutrition intervention programs: a review. 
  • Individual and environmental influences on adolescent eating behaviors. 
  • Influence of food companies' brand mascots and entertainment companies' cartoon media characters on children's diet and health: a systematic review and research needs. 
  • Influence of licensed characters on children's taste and snack preferences. 
  • Influence of product placement in children's movies on children's snack choices. 
  • Influence of sodium consumption and associated knowledge on poststroke hypertension in Uganda. 
  • Intervention effects on kindergarten and first-grade teachers' classroom food practices and food-related beliefs in American Indian reservation schools. 
  • Long-term effects of chronic postnatal lead exposure on delayed spatial alternation in monkeys. 
  • Marketing Food and Beverages to Youth Through Sports. 
  • Measurement of dietary intake in the UNC Alumni Heart Study. University of North Carolina. 
  • Mechanical defenses in leaves eaten by Costa Rican howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata). 
  • Mice lacking synapsin III show abnormalities in explicit memory and conditioned fear. 
  • Mother's milk and adult presence: two factors determining initial dietary selection by weanling rats. 
  • Mother's milk: a determinant of the feeding preferences of weaning rat pups. 
  • Mother's milk: a medium for transmission of cues reflecting the flavor of mother's diet. 
  • Neurotrophic factor-α1 prevents stress-induced depression through enhancement of neurogenesis and is activated by rosiglitazone. 
  • Nutrition-related claims on children's cereals: what do they mean to parents and do they influence willingness to buy? 
  • Obesogenic Behavior and Weight-Based Stigma in Popular Children's Movies, 2012 to 2015. 
  • Observations of parent-child co-shoppers in supermarkets: children's involvement in food selections, parental yielding, and refusal strategies. 
  • Ontogeny and social transmission of food preferences in mammals: basic and applied research. 
  • Pass the popcorn: "obesogenic" behaviors and stigma in children's movies. 
  • Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking. 
  • Perceived barriers and facilitators of using dietary modification for CKD prevention among African Americans of low socioeconomic status: a qualitative study. 
  • Perceptions of adolescents involved in promoting lower-fat foods in schools: associations with level of involvement. 
  • Perceptions of weight and body image among preschool children: A pilot study. 
  • Personality as a predictor of dietary quality in spouses during midlife. 
  • Physical activity equivalent labeling vs. calorie labeling: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Potential Effect of Physical Activity Calorie Equivalent (PACE) Labeling on Adult Fast Food Ordering and Exercise. 
  • Potential effect of physical activity based menu labels on the calorie content of selected fast food meals. 
  • Predicting support for restricting food marketing to youth. 
  • Predictors of fruit and vegetable intake in young adulthood. 
  • Pricing and promotion effects on low-fat vending snack purchases: the CHIPS Study. 
  • Pricing strategy to promote fruit and vegetable purchase in high school cafeterias. 
  • Priming effects of television food advertising on eating behavior. 
  • Promotions to increase lower-fat food choices among students in secondary schools: description and outcomes of TACOS (Trying Alternative Cafeteria Options in Schools). 
  • Protein deficiency magnifies social influence on the food choices of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus). 
  • Providers' response to child eating behaviors: A direct observation study. 
  • Reasons Parents Buy Prepackaged, Processed Meals: It Is More Complicated Than "I Don't Have Time". 
  • Relationships between maternal and adolescent weight-related behaviors and concerns: the role of perception. 
  • Reliability and validity of the Personal Wellness Profile (PWP) Questionnaire in African American college women. 
  • Relief index of second mandibular molars is a correlate of diet among prosimian primates and other euarchontan mammals. 
  • Schoolwide food practices are associated with body mass index in middle school students. 
  • Secular Trends in Meal and Snack Patterns among Adolescents from 1999 to 2010. 
  • Sensory attributes of complex tasting divalent salts are mediated by TRPM5 and TRPV1 channels. 
  • Shared meals among young adults are associated with better diet quality and predicted by family meal patterns during adolescence. 
  • Simplifying healthful choices: a qualitative study of a physical activity based nutrition label format. 
  • Social factors in the poison avoidance and feeding behavior of wild and domesticated rat pups. 
  • Social influences on food choices of Norway rats and mate choices of Japanese quail. 
  • Social influences on the amount of food eaten by Norway rats. 
  • Socio-environmental, personal and behavioural predictors of fast-food intake among adolescents. 
  • Soft drinks, candy, and fast food: what parents and teachers think about the middle school food environment. 
  • Speed and accuracy of taste identification and palatability: impact of learning, reward expectancy, and consummatory licking. 
  • Stress may add bite to appetite in women: a laboratory study of stress-induced cortisol and eating behavior. 
  • Studies of social learning in Norway rats: a brief review. 
  • Susceptibility of artificially reared rat pups to social influences on food choice. 
  • Technical note: Dental microwear textures of "Phase I" and "Phase II" facets. 
  • The Application of Optimal Defaults to Improve Elementary School Lunch Selections: Proof of Concept. 
  • The Smart Choices front-of-package nutrition label. Influence on perceptions and intake of cereal. 
  • The association of the school food environment with dietary behaviors of young adolescents. 
  • The family child care home environment and children's diet quality. 
  • The impact of food prices on consumption: a systematic review of research on the price elasticity of demand for food. 
  • The influence of taxes and subsidies on energy purchased in an experimental purchasing study. 
  • The science on front-of-package food labels. 
  • The variability of young children's energy intake. 
  • Try it, you'll like it: the influence of expectation, consumption, and revelation on preferences for beer. 
  • Validation of the Food-Linked Virtual Response task. 
  • Visual wavelength discrimination by the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta. 
  • Whole-grain intake correlates among adolescents and young adults: findings from Project EAT. 
  • Why eat at fast-food restaurants: reported reasons among frequent consumers. 
  • Women who are motivated to eat and discount the future are more obese.