End-of-aisle displays are often used by supermarkets to promote sales. We found from our study that: Putting drinks on end-of-aisle displays increases sales of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. For alcohol, this sales increase was similar to 4–9% decrease in…
UKSBM 2013 Abstract Award for BHRU’s Suzanna Forwood
The Behaviour and Health Research Unit’s submission “You can’t prime all of the people all of the time: the impact of hunger and education on priming a healthy eating goal” has been chosen as a prize winning abstract submission at…
Do food labels alter food preference?
Descriptive words to describe an apple such as ‘healthy and succulent’, or ‘succulent and healthy’ increase the likelihood of being selected as a dessert instead of chocolate. The results show that labelling increased the rate of selecting the fruit by…
Do the most effective interventions have the most public support?
We carried out the first systematic review of the literature on public attitudes to government interventions to reduce tobacco and alcohol use, increase physical activity and/or improve diet. The review included 200 studies. We found that people regarded interventions that…