Nutrition Sensitive Consumption as a Way to Achieve a Healthy Diet: Working with Dissonance as Revaluation of Foods and Respecting Nutritional Norms

Ernst-August Nuppenau

No 258163, 2017 International European Forum, February 13-17, 2017, Innsbruck-Igls, Austria from International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks

Abstract: This paper deals with a new methodological approach allowing us to bring nutrition sensitive consumption closer to consumers’ attention. We establish a theoretical model in which individual choices (subjective utility) shall correspond better with choices at societal level (objective norms). A first hypothesis is that individual households, in their decisions on what foods to buy, additionally may depend on norms; not only taste. But this creates dissonance. A second hypothesis is: dissonance is minimized. This results in a modification of perceptions and valuation (preference ordering) on possible diets. The idea is to show how norms can modify individual households’ choices.

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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.258163

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