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Bauer, Jan M. [Author]; Schröder, Marina [Author]; Vecchi, Martina [Author]; Bake, Tina [Author]; Dickson, Suzanne L. [Author]; Belot, Michèle [Author]

Rewarding behavior with a sweet food strengthens its valuation - [published Version]

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  • Media type: E-Article; Text
  • Title: Rewarding behavior with a sweet food strengthens its valuation
  • Contributor: Bauer, Jan M. [Author]; Schröder, Marina [Author]; Vecchi, Martina [Author]; Bake, Tina [Author]; Dickson, Suzanne L. [Author]; Belot, Michèle [Author]
  • imprint: San Francisco, Ca. : PLOS, 2021
  • Published in: PLoS ONE 16 (2021), Nr. 4 ; PLoS ONE
  • Issue: published Version
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.15488/12360; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242461
  • Keywords: reward ; physiology ; Food Preferences ; male ; human experiment ; cognitive function test ; eating ; sweet food ; animal ; food ; body weight ; food preference ; Sprague-Dawley ; adult ; obesity ; nonhuman ; young adult ; nutritional value ; Article ; psychology ; Energy Intake ; sugar intake ; feeding behavior ; caloric intake ; [...]
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  • Description: Sweet foods are commonly used as rewards for desirable behavior, specifically among children. This study examines whether such practice may contribute to reinforce the valuation of these foods. Two experiments were conducted, one with children, the other with rats. The first study, conducted with first graders (n = 214), shows that children who receive a food reward for performing a cognitive task subsequently value the food more compared to a control group who received the same food without performing any task. The second study, conducted on rats (n = 64), shows that rewarding with food also translates into higher calorie intake over a 24-hour period. These results suggest that the common practice of rewarding children with calorie-dense sweet foods is a plausible contributing factor to obesity and might therefore be ill advised. © 2021 This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
  • Access State: Open Access