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Incidental exposure to hedonic and healthy food features affects food preferences one day later
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Memories acquired incidentally from exposure to food information in the environment may often become active to
later afect food preferences. Because conscious use of these memories is not requested or required, these inciden‑
tal learning efects constitute a form of indirect memory. In an experiment using a novel food preference paradigm
(n=617), we found that brief incidental exposure to hedonic versus healthy food features indirectly afected food
preferences a day later, explaining approximately 10% of the variance in preferences for tasty versus healthy foods.
It follows that brief incidental exposure to food information can afect food preferences indirectly for at least a day.
When hedonic and health exposure were each compared to a no-exposure baseline, a general efect of hedonic
exposure emerged across individuals, whereas health exposure only afected food preferences for high-BMI individu‑
als. This pattern suggests that focusing attention on hedonic food features engages common afective processes
across the general population, whereas focusing attention on healthy food features engages eating restraint goals
associated with high BMI. Additionally, incidental exposure to food features primarily changed preferences for infre‑
quently consumed foods, having less impact on habitually consumed foods. These fndings ofer insight into how
hedonic information in the obesogenic food environment contributes to unhealthy eating behavior that leads to
overweight and obesity. These fndings further motivate the development of interventions that counteract the efects
of exposure to hedonic food information and that broaden the efects of exposure to healthy food information.
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Eating Food preference Food exposure Habits Incidental learning Indirect memory
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Dutriaux, L., Papies, E. K., Fallon, J., Garcia-Marques, L., & Barsalou, L. W. (2021). Incidental exposure to hedonic and healthy food features affects food preferences one day later. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(1), 78. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00338-6
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Springer