Moving towards healthy: cuing food healthiness and appeal
| Autor: | Moty Amar, Yaniv Gvili, Aner Tal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Marketing
0303 health sciences 030309 nutrition & dietetics Food marketing media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Appeal Advertising Healthy eating Social marketing 03 medical and health sciences Perception 0502 economics and business 050211 marketing Psychology Heuristics Sensory cue media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Social Marketing. 11:44-63 |
| ISSN: | 2042-6763 |
| Popis: | Purpose This paper aims to offer social marketers an innovative method to promote healthy foods. This method demonstrates the effectiveness of indirect communication in attracting consumers to healthy foods. Further, it aims to offer a way to promote food as healthier with no detrimental effects on its perceived appeal, which are a likely side effect of advertising food as healthy. Design/methodology/approach Four between-participant lab studies (N = 50, 80, 80, 102) included manipulations of food motion vs stillness and then compared ratings of food freshness, healthiness and appeal using self-report measures. Findings Motion increases healthiness evaluation. This increase in healthiness evaluation occurs without reductions in food appeal. These effects are mediated by evaluations of freshness. This occurred across three different food types and two mediums (still images and digital videos). Research limitations/implications The paper provides an effective tool for social marketers wishing to encourage healthier eating. Specifically, it helps address two problems: low effectiveness of prevalent, information-based appeals to encourage healthy eating; and reduced evaluations of tastiness that normally occur when consumers are convinced food is healthy. Social implications Social marketers can use motion as an effective tool to promote food as healthy. Importantly, this indirect communication avoids the potential pitfall of reduced food appeal. This should help encourage healthier eating. The findings also supports the use of indirect cues as an effective approach to promoting social ends. Originality/value Offering a novel, indirect method of enhancing judgments of food healthiness via a simple visual cue. Demonstrating the effect and its underlying mechanism. Providing a way to counter the prevalent “unhealthy = tasty” intuition, a major obstacle to promoting healthy eating. Supporting social marketers’ use of indirect communication to increase the appeal of desirable societal goals. Finally, showing that sensory visual cues can serve as a source of heuristic thinking. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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