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Can Nutrition Information Help with the Selection of the Most Nutritious Option?

Chimeli, Janna Valente
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4003-6166
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1430818276

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Experimental Psychology (Arts and Sciences).
College is usually when people start having principal control over their food choices (Smith, Taylor, & Stephen, 2000). The current work focuses on understanding beliefs about nutrition and health, and food choices of the college student population. Guided by findings of previous research on the factors that influence the likelihood of consumers using nutrition labels (Drichoutis, Lazaridis, and Nayga, 2006; Nayga 1996), the present study explored the impact of gender, attitudes towards important aspects of food choice, and nutrition knowledge on the cognitive processes underlying college students’ nutrition information acquisition behavior and food selection. Through the use of a processing tracing techniques, results showed that the surveys used to measure constructs relative to food choice need major psychometric improvements, the decision strategy used by college students were as predicted by the literature, in particular the heuristics decision strategy theory (Gigerenzer and Todd, 1999), but did not lead to accurate choices.
Claudia Gonzalez (Advisor)
181 p.
Psychology
Choice; Food choice; Information evaluation; Nutrition information evaluation

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  • Chimeli, J. V. (2015). Can Nutrition Information Help with the Selection of the Most Nutritious Option? [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1430818276

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chimeli, Janna. Can Nutrition Information Help with the Selection of the Most Nutritious Option? 2015. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1430818276.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chimeli, Janna. "Can Nutrition Information Help with the Selection of the Most Nutritious Option?" Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1430818276

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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