Agricultural Economics Department
Date of this Version
8-3-2022
Citation
Cornhusker Economics (August 3, 2022)
Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract
Everyone can be positively influenced by effective interventions promoting healthier food choices. A handful of recent papers have documented positive impacts on dietary quality resulting from interventions that remind people to consider health through prompt messages or subtle priming in supermarkets and in controlled, online experiments. These studies have focused on the impact of reminders on nutritional quality rather than explaining how reminders work. An exception, Arslain, Gustafson, and Rose (2021), collected data on multiple elements of individuals' choice processes to trace the impact of reminders on decisions, showing that reminder messages led people to consider a healthier set of products and increased the likelihood that they examined nutrition information ( as well as having a direct effect on nutritional quality). These results show that reminders influence elements of the choice process, but the research did not elicit information on what broader outcomes people had considered during the choice process.
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