Towards a better understanding of how motor response training influences food evaluation

Abstract

By changing their dietary choices, people can make some contribution to improve their physical health or reduce their impact on the environment. Since individual food decision-making is value-based, and to modify people’s dietary choices, we examined a way to influence the subjective value of food stimuli. In this dissertation, across seven empirical experiments, it is shown that the value of food stimuli can be changed with both non-reinforced and reinforced learning tasks. This work may contribute to a new understanding of how to influence evaluations of food and the development of more effective food behavior change interventions.