Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

By Brian Wansink. 2001

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An integrative review of sensory marketing: Engaging the senses to affect perception, judgment and behavior (2012, background): “Two good summaries are available in Wansink (2006) and in a review done by Chandon (2010).”
Goal Management in Sequential Choices: Consumer Choices for Others Are More Indulgent than Personal Choices (2010, background): “…a buying agent as a source of indulgent behavior could offer a theoretical contribution to the literature on the role of social groups in food consumption (Ariely and Levav 2000; Wan- sink 2007) and also help people avoid the trap of going against their best interests just to please others.”
Slim by Design: Redirecting the Accidental Drivers of Mindless Overeating (2014, background): “Prior research describes a consumption range—a mindless margin—in which people can either slightly overeat or slightly under-eat without being aware of it (Wansink, 2006).”
Mindless Eating (2007, background): “Keywords: estimation; food-related decisions; meal cessation; mindless eating; obesity Many food-related decisions occur in distracting everyday environmentsthat may lead to relatively “mindless eating” (Wansink, 2006).”
Priming Effects of Television Food Advertising on Eating Behavior (2009, unknown): “, container size and shape, food variety, and portion size) affect amount consumed without the consumer’s knowledge (Wansink, 2006).”
Self-Control in School-Age Children (2014, background): “The dramatic influence of salient environmental cues on self-controlled behavior (Mann & Ward, 2007; Thaler & Sunstein, 2008; Wansink, 2007) helps explains why more self-controlled adults tend to avoid temptations as they go about their daily lives (Hofmann, Baumeister, F€orster, & Vohs, 2012).”
Promoting Healthy Choices: Information versus Convenience (2010, unknown): “For example, changes in convenience have been shown to reduce snacking ( James E. Painter, Brian Wansink, and Julie B. Hieggelke 2002 ) and alter decisions about peripheral meal items such as chips and candy ( Herbert L. Meiselman et al. 1994 , typically without consumer awareness ( Brian Wansink 20”
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).”
2007 Presidential Address: Fear of Losing Control: Power, Perfectionism, and the Psychology of Women (2008, background): “It is understandable that many of those decisions will be made without conscious awareness (about 90% of them, in the case of food; Wansink, 2006), as there is only so much room in anyone’s conscious awareness at any given time.”
Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape (2015, background): “There is increasing consensus that dietary choices are often driven by habit, subtle cues and differences within the food environment, and less by knowledge and conscious choice (Wansink 2007; Marteau et al. 2012; Chadwick et al. 2013; Hawkes 2013).”