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SUMMARY:Nudges\, Norms\, and Comfort Food: Tiny interventions to get kids 
 to eat vegetables and astronauts to eat anything - Professor Traci Mann\, 
 University of Minnesota Department of Psychology
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DTEND:20131129T140000Z
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CONTACT:Lucy Lloyd
DESCRIPTION:To improve people’s health\, we may be better off trying to 
 promote the eating of healthy foods\, rather than trying to prevent people
  from eating unhealthy ones. I will describe two distinct lines of researc
 h in which we use small interventions based on social psychological princi
 ples to promote healthy eating. In the first line of work\, we attempt to 
 get children to eat more vegetables in their school cafeterias by using nu
 dges that take advantage of contrast effects as well as (non-existent) nor
 ms. In the second line of work\, we prepare to intervene with astronauts o
 n the International Space Station to simultaneously reduce their stress an
 d stop them from losing weight. I will describe our ground studies in whic
 h we test two strategies to reduce stress and increase eating: providing c
 omfort food and giving people control over their meal preparation. 
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Uni
 versity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge
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