Pricing policies and retail strategies can help shift diets, but they must account for socioeconomic inequalities in how consumers respond to food prices.
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Navigating the benefits and risks of eating fish is a daily concern for consumers in Kenya due to persistent environmental pollution. How much are they influenced by nutritional labelling and guidelines?
Researchers describe what they call a consumption stigma – when you feel judged or looked down on for using certain products or services.
Using more appealing language and descriptions — rather than simply labelling foods ‘vegan’ or ‘vegetarian’ — can encourage people to choose plant-based foods more often.
Ministers are tightening the screws. If food companies don’t embrace health stars, they’ll be compulsory.
Because our shopping process is always the most logical one, the Nutri-Score was developed to help consumers make better-informed decisions.
New research shows how supermarkets can use the smell of mixed herbs such as thyme, rosemary, oregano and basil to influence shoppers buying choices.
Wool, cotton, polyester? Here’s what we found when it comes to choosing the right textiles for sleep.
When diners were asked why they don’t order plant-based meat dishes, it turns out they have many different reasons.
Life is full of hidden bottlenecks that result from logistical trade-offs between efficiency and your unique needs and desires. AI promises to change this taken-for-granted equation.
Gen Z’s interest in flip phones is the latest in a series of obsessions young people have for the aesthetic of the 1990s and 2000s.
Caught up in the latest Medibank cybersecurity breach? Not happy with your premiums? Here’s what you need to know about switching health insurer.
Our study found encouraging people to do their own research comes with risks – including shifting too much responsibility onto the individual.
How responsible are we for the slavery that is directly connected to our consumer choices and what can we do to reduce it?
In Australia, a preference for a particular brand of COVID vaccine is likely to change, depending on the latest health advice, and media reports.
Promote new habits, find out why people engage with the wildlife trade and don’t make it seem more widespread than it really is.
Spray, pump or roll-on? Matte, fragrance-free, oil-free? No wonder we’re confused when it comes to buying sunscreen.
A scholar who studies consumer decision-making explains just what it is in the human mind that makes people susceptible to nudges toward one behavior or another.
The cleared land of Paraguay’s Chaco forest produces everyday products like charcoal and leather that are sold abroad to consumers who may never know the unsavory origins of their purchases.
Energy companies and other retailers bamboozle us with options to increase their profits. Here’s how the behavioural phenomenon of choice overload works.
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Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University
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Researcher in design, aesthetics, and what we love about products, Swinburne University of Technology
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Maître de conférences associé à l’IAE Brest, chercheur associé au LEGO, IAE Brest
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Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney
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Maître de conférences, chercheur en marketing, Université Bretagne Sud (UBS)
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Professor of Persuasive Language and Storytelling, SKEMA Business School
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Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Health sociologist, University of Sydney
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Professor in Marketing and Consumer Culture Studies, Lancaster University
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Research Scientist in Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
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Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor in Marketing, University of Bath
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Clinical Professor, University of Sydney