Using remote peers' influence to promote healthy food choices among preschoolers

• Main Authors: Kim, Elizabeth B., Chen, Chuansheng, Cheon, Bobby Kyungbeom
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Conformity; food Choice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142952
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Prior studies have demonstrated that social norms or cues of others' eating behaviors serve as powerful guides for one's own eating behaviors. Yet it remains underexplored whether young children are susceptible to social pressure by remote peers when faced with a conflict between what they...