Adherence
Lower intertemporal discount rates (higher patience) are associated with the selection of foods with higher nutritional quality, independent of active health consideration.
People who are naturally more patient (low discounters) tend to choose healthier foods. This trait is stable but can be influenced by interventions like episodic future thinking, which asks individuals to imagine detailed future experiences, thereby reducing impulsive choices and promoting healthier diets.
We also find that participants with lower discount rates selected foods with higher nutritional quality compared to high discount-rate participants, corroborating previous literature.
Why this rating
Robust experimental design, controlling for demographics.
Source
The relationship of active consideration of health outcomes and intertemporal preferences to choice process variables and nutrition: evidence from an experiment on food choice
Olivier Tuyizere et al. · Frontiers in Behavioral Economics · 2023
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