Effects of emotional state and food novelty on preschool children's acceptance of food

Humans and other animals typically consume less of novel foods than of familiar ones, a phenomenon termed ingestional neophobia. Young children display especially high levels of neophobia, spitting out new foods but accepting those same foods after familiarization. Rejection of novel foods presumabl...

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Main Author: Slank, Kristine Lynn
Other Authors: Psychology
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40333
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11102005-141139/