Psychology and More

Cognitive Daily notes a recent article from Psychological Science, reporting the results of an experiment looking at the way children make choices for healthy or unhealthy foods. It turns out that they will choose the healthier foods if they cost less. This works, though, only if the children are on a limited budget. If they have a relatively unlimited amount of money, they’ll still opt for the junk foods. There’s probably an economics function that describes this…

Cognitive Daily:

Epstein and his team note that overweight and obesity is increasing in America, but their experiments do suggest one way to help kids choose healthier foods: keep them on a limited budget, and increase the price of unhealthy foods compared to healthy ones.

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