Cultural Moderation of Unconscious Hedonic Responses to Food
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Stimuli
2.3. Apparatus
2.4. Procedure
2.5. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Preference Ratings
3.2. Forced Choice Discrimination
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Sato, W.; Rymarczyk, K.; Minemoto, K.; Wojciechowski, J.; Hyniewska, S. Cultural Moderation of Unconscious Hedonic Responses to Food. Nutrients 2019, 11, 2832. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11112832
Sato W, Rymarczyk K, Minemoto K, Wojciechowski J, Hyniewska S. Cultural Moderation of Unconscious Hedonic Responses to Food. Nutrients. 2019; 11(11):2832. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11112832
Chicago/Turabian StyleSato, Wataru, Krystyna Rymarczyk, Kazusa Minemoto, Jakub Wojciechowski, and Sylwia Hyniewska. 2019. "Cultural Moderation of Unconscious Hedonic Responses to Food" Nutrients 11, no. 11: 2832. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11112832