Children’s Variety Seeking in Food Choices

Echelbarger, Margaret; Maimaran, Michal; Gelman, Susan A.

doi:10.1086/709172

Cited by 14 publications

(12 citation statements)

References 32 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…We had low rates of exclusion across studies (we were able to retain 94% of participants), and children were able to see our pictures and hear us accurately, as indicated by the screenshare check questions. Such methods closely resemble food preference and rating studies conducted in the laboratory or other community settings (Rioux et al, 2016;DeJesus et al, 2019a;Echelbarger et al, 2020). Studies were run directly from Qualtrics, which reduced the extra step of running the study on another platform (such as Microsoft PowerPoint) and entering the data separately.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Asking Children Questions About Food Apart from measuring actual food intake, another method of assessing children's eating behavior is eliciting their food ratings or beliefs about foods (e.g., DeJesus et al, 2019b;Echelbarger et al, 2020). In this section, we highlight online studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic that have assessed children's preferences and predictions as a plausible method for examining children's opinions about foods using synchronous videoconference sessions.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Really (yummy/yucky) or a little (yummy/ yucky)?" (DeJesus et al, 2019b), or as a choice between two options (Echelbarger et al, 2020). For preverbal infants who cannot say if they like a food or not, a few methods are still available to assess their preferences or early reasoning about food: infants' facial expressions or parent ratings can provide some insight into their food enjoyment (Mennella et al, 2001).…”

Section: Measuring Food Preferences and Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Studying Children’s Eating at Home: Using Synchronous Videoconference Sessions to Adapt to COVID-19 and Beyond

Venkatesh

DeJesus

2021

Front. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many facets of developmental research, including research that measures children’s eating behavior. Here, children’s food intake is often measured by weighing foods that children are offered before and after in-person testing sessions. Many studies also examine children’s food ratings (the extent to which they like or dislike a food), assessed via picture categorization tasks or hedonic scales. This paper reviews existing research on different methods for characterizing children’s eating behavior (with a focus on food intake, preferences, and concepts) and presents a feasibility study that examined whether children’s eating behaviors at home (including their food intake and ratings) can be measured via live video-chat sessions. The feasibility analyses revealed that an observational feeding paradigm at home yielded a majority (more than 70%) of video-chat recordings that had a sufficient view of the child and adequate sound and picture quality required for observational coding for the majority of the session’s duration. Such positioning would enable behavioral coding of child food intake, parent food talk, and meal characteristics. Moreover, children were able to answer questions to stories and express their preferences via researcher screen-share methods (which can assess children’s self-reported food preferences and beliefs) with low rates of exclusion across studies. The article ends with a discussion on the opportunities and challenges of using online platforms to conduct studies on children’s eating behaviors in their home environments during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Measuring Food Preferences and Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Studying Children’s Eating at Home: Using Synchronous Videoconference Sessions to Adapt to COVID-19 and Beyond

Venkatesh

DeJesus

2021

Front. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Parents, educators, employers, marketers, medical practitioners, and others may wish to take this finding to heart as they deliver feedback to children, employees, consumers, or patients. The final article in this compilation by Echelbarger et al (2020) investigates how children learn about products and develop preferences. The article provides important longitudinal and practical insights that choices among children largely parallel choices adults are known to make.…”

Section: Why Longitudinal Insights Matter: Three Topic Areas As Examplesmentioning

confidence: 99%

It’s About Time: A Call for More Longitudinal Consumer Research Insights

Labroo¹

2020

Journal of the Association for Consumer Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…This desire for variety is also known as variety-seeking behavior [25][26][27][28]. Consumers tend to deviate from previously used products or choices, even if they are satisfied with them, due to the curiosity of the new experience [29][30][31]. Variety seeking behavior is often seen in settings where the risk of making a bad choice is low, such as within the out-of-home catering sector.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spontaneous Variety-Seeking Meal Choice in Business Canteens Impedes Sustainable Production

Ohlhausen

Langen

2021

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Sustainable meal choices in the out-of-home catering market are essential to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals. This study investigated consumers’ acceptance of different features that help service providers to work more sustainably. For this purpose, data of a choice experiment and a supporting online questionnaire were analyzed using latent class analysis (LCA) and the data of n = 373 employees. Examined attributes in the choice experiment were menu variety, menu type, ordering system, ingredients and price. LCA led to four consumer segments: variety seekers (27.6%), spontaneous decisionmakers—vegetarian (25.7%), spontaneous decisionmakers—meat (24.1%) and vegetarians/vegans (22.6%). Results showed that consumers in all four segments expected to have the choice between different menus in company canteens. Moreover, they preferred spontaneous choice to preordering. Both preferences hamper sustainable production and consumption in the catering sector.

show abstract

Children’s Variety Seeking in Food Choices

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Studying Children’s Eating at Home: Using Synchronous Videoconference Sessions to Adapt to COVID-19 and Beyond

Studying Children’s Eating at Home: Using Synchronous Videoconference Sessions to Adapt to COVID-19 and Beyond

It’s About Time: A Call for More Longitudinal Consumer Research Insights

Spontaneous Variety-Seeking Meal Choice in Business Canteens Impedes Sustainable Production

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About