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Porträttbild av Kerstin Gidlöf. Foto.

Kerstin Gidlöf

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Hunger effects on option quality for hedonic and utilitarian food products

Författare

  • Tobias Otterbring
  • Michał Folwarczny
  • Kerstin Gidlöf

Summary, in English

Multiple studies have examined the extent to which consumers’ hunger levels predict their food choices and preference patterns. These investigations often involve making binary choices between hedonic foods (e.g., ice cream) that primarily serve to provide sensory pleasure, and utilitarian foods (e.g., bread) that mainly fulfill functional purposes. However, most consumers entering a grocery store are not restricted to solely selecting either hedonic or utilitarian foods. Rather, they typically choose both hedonic and utilitarian food options. Moreover, little is known about the effects of hunger on consumers’ option quality (i.e., the degree of match between actual food choices and stated preferences) or their cognitive performance in food contexts. To address these gaps, the current study explored (1) whether experimentally induced hunger (vs. satiation) influences the option quality of consumers’ chosen food items; (2) whether this potential interplay is contingent on the food category (hedonic vs. utilitarian); and (3) whether hungry (vs. satiated) consumers’ performance may differ on cognitively challenging tasks. The results revealed that hunger did not lead to a generalized decrease in consumers’ option quality. However, option quality was inferior for utilitarian—but not hedonic—foods among hungry consumers, whereas no such differences were found for satiated consumers. Hungry (vs. satiated) consumers also performed significantly worse on cognitively demanding tasks, underscoring the far-reaching consequences of hunger on consumers’ decision-making. Further research should test the generalizability of these results in ecologically valid settings, such as in actual supermarkets.

Avdelning/ar

  • Kognitionsvetenskap
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publiceringsår

2023

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Food Quality and Preference

Volym

103

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
  • Economics and Business

Nyckelord

  • Food choice
  • Food preferences
  • Hedonic
  • Hunger
  • Option quality
  • Utilitarian

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0950-3293