Is Obesity Caused by Calorie Underestimation? A Psychophysical Model of Meal Size Estimation

By Pierre Chandon, Brian Wansink. 2007

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The Biasing Health Halos of Fast Food Restaurant Health Claims: Lower Calorie Estimates and Higher Side-Dish Consumption Intentions (2007, methodology): “In the absence of nutrition information, it is very difficult to estimate calorie content through visual inspection or sensory satiation (Chandon and Wansink 2007; Livingstone and Black 2003).”
Promoting positive change: Advancing the food well-being paradigm☆ (2013, background): “In addition, portion size information impacts perceptions of caloric content, such that consumers tend to underestimate calories for larger compared to smaller servings (Chandon & Wansink, 2007b).”
Categorization Effects in Value Judgments: Averaging Bias in Evaluating Combinations of Vices and Virtues (2010, background): “…evidence that despite the increase in the proportion of healthier options available to consumers, the proportion of overweight people has increased, a finding often referred to as “the American obesity paradox” (Chandon 2009; Chandon and Wansink 2007a; Heini and Weinsier 1997; Wansink 2006).”
Using Extremeness Aversion to Fight Obesity: Policy Implications of Context Dependent Demand (2008, background): “First, consumers have little knowledge of their actual caloric consumption (Chandon and Wansink 2007a, 2007b; Yehling and Marcouiller 2005).”
I’ll Have What She’s Having: Effects of Social Influence and Body Type on the Food Choices of Others (2010, unknown): “…2009 authors point to a more sedentary lifestyle (Blair and Brodney 1999) or genetics (Comuzzi and Allison 1998), most research is pointing to a marked increase in consumption (of food and drink) as the main driver of obesity (Chandon and Wansink 2007a; Hill and Peters 1998; Young and Nestle 2002).”
Assortment Size and Option Attractiveness in Consumer Choice among Retailers (2009, background): “The diminishing marginal value theory has been applied to the relationship between objective and subjective estimation of a product’s size, in which consumers’ sensitivity to changes in magnitude has been shown to decrease as the product size increases (Chandon and Wansink 2007).”
Why did I eat that? Perspectives on food decision making and dietary restraint (2010, background): “…of one goal, such as exercising or making a healthy meal choice, have been shown to license the same individual to subsequently move toward the opposite goal, such as indulging in a larger meal or adding dessert (Fishbach & Dhar, 2005; Louro, Pieters, & Zeelenberg, 2007; Chandon & Wansink, 2007a).”
Slim by Design: Redirecting the Accidental Drivers of Mindless Overeating (2014, background): “If any of these marketing actions imply or lead one to believe the food is healthier than they would otherwise think, it can lead to a “health halo” (Chandon & Wansink 2007a), whereby people generalize that the food scores favorably on all health and nutrition aspects 23 (including it being lower…”
Can “Low-Fat” Nutrition Labels Lead to Obesity? (2006, background): “For example, studies have shown that overweight and regularweight consumers have similar estimations of portion sizes (Chandon and Wansink 2007).”
Behavioural Insights and (Un)healthy Dietary Choices: a Review of Current Evidence (2018, background): “For instance, individuals who are informed about the general tendency to underestimate the caloric content of food provide better estimates than those who do not receive such bias disclosure (Chandon and Wansink 2007).”
Supersize in One Dimension, Downsize in Three Dimensions: Effects of Spatial Dimensionality on Size Perceptions and Preferences (2009, background): “These results were replicated in various consumer contexts, such as when estimating the sizes of round and square pizzas (Krider, Raghubir, and Krishna 2001), the sizes of fast-food meals (Chandon and Wansink 2007b), or the quantity of product in home pantries (Chandon and Wansink 2006).”