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"Don't eat so much:" how parent comments relate to female weight satisfaction

scientific article published on 6 June 2016

"Is this a meal or snack?" Situational cues that drive perceptions

scientific article

A plant to plate pilot: a cold-climate high school garden increased vegetable selection but also waste

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Are breaks in daily self-weighing associated with weight gain?

scientific article

Are there atheists in foxholes? Combat intensity and religious behavior

scientific article published in September 2013

Are we aware of the external factors that influence our food intake?

scientific article

Association of nutrient-dense snack combinations with calories and vegetable intake

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

Attractive names sustain increased vegetable intake in schools

scientific article published on July 27, 2012

Authors' response: Regarding the paper 'The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods' by Cawley et al.

scientific article

Bad popcorn in big buckets: portion size can influence intake as much as taste

scientific article published in September 2005

Beyond nudges: Tools of a choice architecture

article

Big drinkers: how BMI, gender and rules of thumb influence the free pouring of wine

scientific article published on 23 August 2014

Biting versus chewing: eating style and social aggression in children

scientific article published in April 2014

Blinded with science: Trivial graphs and formulas increase ad persuasiveness and belief in product efficacy

scientific article published on 15 October 2014

Bottomless bowls: why visual cues of portion size may influence intake

scientific article

Bottoms Up! The Influence of Elongation on Pouring and Consumption Volume

article by Brian Wansink & Koert van Ittersum published December 2003 in Journal of Consumer Research

Calorie reductions and within-meal calorie compensation in children's meal combos

scientific article published on 23 December 2013

Can generic advertising alleviate consumer concerns over food scares?

Candy consumption patterns, effects on health, and behavioral strategies to promote moderation: summary report of a roundtable discussion

scientific article

Chefs move to schools. A pilot examination of how chef-created dishes can increase school lunch participation and fruit and vegetable intake

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

Chocolate milk consequences: a pilot study evaluating the consequences of banning chocolate milk in school cafeterias

scientific article

Clinical decisions. Regulation of sugar-sweetened beverages

scientific article published on 21 September 2012

Clutter, Chaos, and Overconsumption

College Cafeteria Signage Increases Water Intake but Water Position on the Soda Dispenser Encourages More Soda Consumption

scientific article published on 22 July 2017

College cafeteria snack food purchases become less healthy with each passing week of the semester

scientific article published on 27 July 2012

Concession stand makeovers: a pilot study of offering healthy foods at high school concession stands

scientific article

Consequences of Belonging to the “Clean Plate Club”

Consumer reactions to food safety crises

scientific article published in January 2004

Convenient, attractive, and normative: the CAN approach to making children slim by design.

scientific article

Cooking habits provide a key to 5 a day success

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

Corrigendum to "Attractive names sustain increased vegetable intake in schools" [Prev. Med. 55 (4) (2012) 330-332].

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

Corrigendum: Eating behavior and obesity at Chinese buffets.

scientific article published in July 2017

Counting bones: environmental cues that decrease food intake

scientific article published in February 2007

Crowdsourcing novel childhood predictors of adult obesity

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Death row nutrition. Curious conclusions of last meals

scientific article published on August 25, 2012

Depicted serving size: cereal packaging pictures exaggerate serving sizes and promote overserving

scientific article

Dining in the dark. The importance of visual cues for food consumption and satiety

scientific article published on 13 August 2010

Dinner rituals that correlate with child and adult BMI.

scientific article

Dispelling myths about a new healthful food can be more motivating than promoting nutritional benefits: the case of Tofu

scientific article published on 4 April 2014

Do children really prefer large portions? Visual illusions bias their estimates and intake

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Does food marketing need to make us fat? A review and solutions

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

Eating Together at the Firehouse: How Workplace Commensality Relates to the Performance of Firefighters

scientific article published on August 2015

Eating behavior and obesity at Chinese buffets

scientific article published on 05 June 2008

Eating behaviors and the number of buffet trips: an observational study at all-you-can-eat Chinese restaurants

scientific article published in April 2013

Empowering Nutrition Gatekeepers: Policy with a Small “p”

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

Empowering Nutrition Gatekeepers: The Parents

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

Environmental factors that increase the food intake and consumption volume of unknowing consumers

scientific article

Environmental influences on small eating behavior change to promote weight loss among Black and Hispanic populations

scientific article published on 11 September 2015

Erratum to: Depicted serving size: cereal packaging pictures exaggerate serving sizes and promote overserving

scientific article published on 17 March 2017

Erratum to: Stop spoon dosing: milliliter instructions reduce inclination to spoon dosing

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Evaluating parents and adult caregivers as "agents of change" for treating obese children: evidence for parent behavior change strategies and research gaps: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

scientific article published on 23 January 2012

Exercise and food compensation: exploring diet-related beliefs and behaviors of regular exercisers

scientific article published on 6 May 2014

Exhibitionist Eating: Who Wins Eating Competitions?

scientific article

Exploring comfort food preferences across age and gender

scientific article

Exploring the flavor life cycle of beers with varying alcohol content

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

Extraverted children are more biased by bowl sizes than introverts

scientific article

Factors related to sustained use of a free mobile app for dietary self-monitoring with photography and peer feedback: retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 15 April 2014

Fast Food Restaurant Lighting and Music can Reduce Calorie Intake and Increase Satisfaction

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

Fast food, soft drink and candy intake is unrelated to body mass index for 95% of American adults

scientific article

Fattening fasting: hungry grocery shoppers buy more calories, not more food.

scientific article

Fifty years of fat: news coverage of trends that predate obesity prevalence

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

Fine as North Dakota wine: sensory expectations and the intake of companion foods

scientific article published on 3 January 2007

First Foods Most: After 18-Hour Fast, People Drawn to Starches First and Vegetables Last

scientific article published on June 25, 2012

Fit in 50 years: participation in high school sports best predicts one's physical activity after age 70

scientific article

Fluid consumption and the potential role of canteen shape in minimizing dehydration

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Food compensation: do exercise ads change food intake?

scientific article published on January 28, 2011

Food neophiles: Profiling the adventurous eater

scientific article

Food pantry selection solutions: a randomized controlled trial in client-choice food pantries to nudge clients to targeted foods

article published in 2016

Food plating preferences -- reply to reply regarding Zampollo et al.

scientific article published on 2 January 2013

Food plating preferences of children: the importance of presentation on desire for diversity

scientific article published on 30 July 2011

From mindless eating to mindlessly eating better

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

Frosting on the cake: pictures on food packaging bias serving size

scientific article published on 30 March 2016

Frosting on the cake: pictures on food packaging bias serving size - CORRIGENDUM.

scientific article published on 26 April 2017

Fruit-Promoting Smarter Lunchrooms Interventions: Results From a Cluster RCT.

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

Half full or empty: cues that lead wine drinkers to unintentionally overpour

scientific article

Healthy Concessions: High School Students' Responses to Healthy Concession Stand Changes

scientific article published on February 2017

Healthy convenience: nudging students toward healthier choices in the lunchroom.

scientific article published on 31 January 2012

Hierarchy of nutritional knowledge that relates to the consumption of a functional food

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

How Traumatic Violence Permanently Changes Shopping Behavior

retracted scientific article published on 06 September 2016

How negative experiences shape long-term food preferences. Fifty years from the World War II combat front

retracted scientific article published in June 2009

How vegetables make the meal: their hedonic and heroic impact on perceptions of the meal and of the preparer

scientific article published on 15 November 2012

How visibility and convenience influence candy consumption

scientific article published on June 2002

Ice cream illusions bowls, spoons, and self-served portion sizes

scientific article published on September 2006

Impact of a Smarter Lunchroom intervention on food selection and consumption among adolescents and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a residential school setting

scientific article published on 17 March 2014

In good company. The effect of an eating companion's appearance on food intake

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Innovative approaches to weight loss in a high-risk population: The small changes and lasting effects (SCALE) trial

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

Interactions between forms of fat consumption and restaurant bread consumption

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Internal and external cues of meal cessation: the French paradox redux?

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Is Meat Male? A Quantitative Multimethod Framework to Establish Metaphoric Relationships

Is it fun or exercise? The framing of physical activity biases subsequent snacking

article

It’s Not Just Lunch: Extra-Pair Commensality Can Trigger Sexual Jealousy

scientific article published on July 11, 2012

Just thinking about exercise makes me serve more food. Physical activity and calorie compensation

scientific article published on December 24, 2010

Larger bowl size increases the amount of cereal children request, consume, and waste

scientific article published on 16 November 2013

Looks Good Enough to Eat

Meal size, not body size, explains errors in estimating the calorie content of meals

scientific article published in September 2006

Mindless Eating

book by Brian Wansink

Mindless drinking: how gender and BMI relate to the consumption of alcohol

scientific article published on 6 September 2014

Mindless eating challenge: retention, weight outcomes, and barriers for changes in a public web-based healthy eating and weight loss program

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

New Year's res-illusions: food shopping in the new year competes with healthy intentions

scientific article

Notice of Retraction and Replacement. Wansink B, Just DR, Payne CR. Can Branding Improve School Lunches? Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012;166(10):967-968. doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.999

Notice of Retraction. Wansink B, Just DR, Payne CR. Can Branding Improve School Lunches? Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012;166(10):967-968. JAMA Pediatr. doi:10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.999.

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Nutrition Education and Behavioral Economics

scientific article published on 01 July 2012

Nutrition Report Cards: an opportunity to improve school lunch selection

scientific article

Nutritional Gatekeeping: Empowering Parents to Help Guide Food Choices for Their Children

article by Brian Wansink et al published December 2010 in Childhood Obesity

Nutritional gatekeepers and the 72% solution.

scientific article published in September 2006

One man's tall is another man's small: how the framing of portion size influences food choice

scientific article

Plate Size and Color Suggestibility: The Delboeuf Illusion’s Bias on Serving and Eating Behavior

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Portion size me: downsizing our consumption norms

scientific article published in July 2007

Portion size me: plate-size induced consumption norms and win-win solutions for reducing food intake and waste

scientific article

Position of the American Dietetic Association: food and nutrition misinformation

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Pre-sliced fruit in school cafeterias: children's selection and intake

scientific article published in May 2013

Preordering school lunch encourages better food choices by children

scientific article published in July 2013

Profiling taste-motivated segments

scientific article

Project M.O.M.: Mothers & Others & MyPyramid

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Low prices and high regret: how pricing influences regret at all-you-can-eat buffets

retracted paper

RETRACTED: Can branding improve school lunches?

retracted scientific article published in October 2012

RETRACTED: The sweet tooth hypothesis: How fruit consumption relates to snack consumption

retracted scientific article published on 29 March 2006

Red potato chips: Segmentation cues can substantially decrease food intake

scientific article published on February 6, 2012

Relation of Soy Consumption to Nutritional Knowledge

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Reliability and accuracy of real-time visualization techniques for measuring school cafeteria tray waste: validating the quarter-waste method

scientific article published on 14 October 2013

Retraction Note: Low prices and high regret: how pricing influences regret at all-you-can-eat buffets

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Retraction notice to " The Sweet Tooth Hypothesis: How Fruit Consumption Relates to Snack Consumption" [Appetite Volume 47, Issue 1, July (2006) 107-110]

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Retraction notice to "Attractive Names Sustain Increased Vegetable Intake in Schools" [Prev. Med. 55/4 (2012) 330 - 332].

scientific article published in May 2018

School lunch debit card payment systems are associated with lower nutrition and higher calories

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

Serving bowl selection biases the amount of food served

scientific article published on 6 October 2011

Shape of glass and amount of alcohol poured: comparative study of effect of practice and concentration

scientific article

Shifts in the Enjoyment of Healthy and Unhealthy Behaviors Affect Short- and Long-Term Postbariatric Weight Loss†

Slim by Design: Kitchen Counter Correlates of Obesity.

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

Slim by design for schools

scientific article published in December 2014

Slim by design: serving healthy foods first in buffet lines improves overall meal selection

scientific article

Small Changes and Lasting Effects (SCALE) Trial: the formation of a weight loss behavioral intervention using EVOLVE.

scientific article published on 26 January 2015

Smarter lunchrooms can address new school lunchroom guidelines and childhood obesity

scientific article published on 22 February 2013

Spoons systematically bias dosing of liquid medicine.

scientific article published in January 2010

Stop spoon dosing: milliliter instructions reduce inclination to spoon dosing

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Substituting sugar confectionery with fruit and healthy snacks at checkout - a win-win strategy for consumers and food stores? a study on consumer attitudes and sales effects of a healthy supermarket intervention

scientific article

Super Bowls: serving bowl size and food consumption

scientific article published in April 2005

Supplementing menu labeling with calorie recommendations to test for facilitation effects

Television watching and effects on food intake--reply

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

The 10% solution: Tying managerial salary increases to workplace wellness actions (and not results).

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

The 100‐Calorie Semi‐Solution: Sub‐Packaging Most Reduces Intake Among The Heaviest

scientific article published on January 13, 2011

The Biasing Health Halos of Fast-Food Restaurant Health Claims: Lower Calorie Estimates and Higher Side-Dish Consumption Intentions

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The Flat-Rate Pricing Paradox: Conflicting Effects of “All-You-Can-Eat” Buffet Pricing

The Influence of Assortment Structure on Perceived Variety and Consumption Quantities

The Joy of Cooking Too Much: 70 Years of Calorie Increases in Classic Recipes

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

The New Society for Nutrition Education… “and Behavior”

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

The Relationship between Social Network Body Size and the Body Size Norms of Black and Hispanic Adults

scientific article

The adaptation of a school-based health promotion programme for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities: a community-engaged research process

scientific article published on 3 June 2014

The audience eats more if a movie character keeps eating: An unconscious mechanism for media influence on eating behaviors

scientific article

The impact of a supermarket nutrition rating system on purchases of nutritious and less nutritious foods

scientific article published in August 2014

The limits of defaults: why french fries trump apple slices

scientific article

The sound of cooperation: Musical influences on cooperative behavior

scientific article

Toxics, Toyotas, and Terrorism: The Behavioral Economics of Fear and Stigma

scientific article published on February 16, 2012

Trayless cafeterias lead diners to take less salad and relatively more dessert

scientific article

Trayless cafeterias lead diners to take less salad and relatively more dessert--ERRATUM

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

Turning Virtual Reality into Reality: A Checklist to Ensure Virtual Reality Studies of Eating Behavior and Physical Activity Parallel the Real World

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Using plate mapping to examine portion size and plate composition for large and small divided plates

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Viewers vs. doers. The relationship between watching food television and BMI.

scientific article published on 3 March 2015

Virtual Reality Technologies for Research and Education in Obesity and Diabetes: Research Needs and Opportunities

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Watch What You Eat

Watching food-related television increases caloric intake in restrained eaters

scientific article published on August 16, 2011

Weighing the Evidence of Common Beliefs in Obesity Research

scientific article

Weight Gain over the Holidays in Three Countries

scientific article published in September 2016

Weight rhythms: weight increases during weekends and decreases during weekdays

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

What really determines what we eat. The hidden truth

scientific article published in November 2006

When do gain-framed health messages work better than fear appeals?

scientific article published on January 2015

When snacks become meals: How hunger and environmental cues bias food intake

scientific article published on August 25, 2010

Which Design Components of Nutrition Infographics Make Them Memorable and Compelling?

scientific article published in November 2016

Who's Using MyPlate?

Who's adopting the smarter lunchroom approach? Individual characteristics of innovative food service directors

scientific article published on 11 September 2016