Children's implicit food cognition: Developing a food Implicit Association Test.

ABSTRACT: Assessing children's reasoning about food, including their health knowledge and their food preferences, is an important step toward understanding how health messages may influence children's food choices. However, in many studies, assessing children's reasoning relies on parent report or could be susceptible to social pressure from adults. To address these limitations, the present study describes the development of a food version of the Implicit Association Test (IAT). The IAT has been used to examine children's implicit stereotypes about social groups, yet few studies have used the IAT in other domains (such as food cognition). Four- to 12-year-olds (n = 123) completed the food IAT and an explicit card sort task, in which children assessed foods based on their perception of the foo

SUBMITTER: DeJesus JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7448679 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature