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SUMMARY:Nudges\, Norms\, and Comfort Food: Tiny interventions to get kids 
 to eat vegetables and astronauts to eat anything - Professor Traci Mann\, 
 University of Minnesota
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CONTACT:Rebecca Noorderhaven
DESCRIPTION:To improve people’s health\, we may be better off trying to 
 promote the eating of healthy foods\, rather than trying to prevent people
  from eating unhealthy ones. I will describe two lines of research in whic
 h we use small interventions based on social psychological principles to p
 romote healthy eating. In the first line of work\, we attempt to get child
 ren to eat more vegetables in their school cafeterias by using nudges that
  take advantage of contrast effects as well as (non-existent) norms. In th
 e second line of work\, we prepare to intervene with astronauts on the Int
 ernational Space Station to simultaneously reduce their stress and stop th
 em from losing weight. I will describe our ground studies in which we test
  one strategy to reduce stress and increase eating: providing comfort food
 .
LOCATION:PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane)
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