Concrete Messages Increase Healthy Eating Preferences

Concrete Messages Increase Healthy Eating Preferences

Public health campaigns utilize messaging to encourage healthy eating. The present experimental study investigated the impact of three components of health messages on preferences for healthy foods. We exposed 1676 online, American study participants to messages that described the gains associated w...

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Main Authors:	Emily Balcetis, Madhumitha Manivannan, E. Blair Cox
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Asociación Universitaria de Educación 2020-06-01
Series:	European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education
Subjects:	abstraction construal level junk food temporal distance
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/10/2/49

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