Food Norms and Preferences in Schools: is there Pluralistic Ignorance?

We use behavioural games to identify preferences, beliefs about others’ preferences, and higher-order beliefs, amongst adolescents at a UK comprehensive school. Pupils systematically under-rate the attractiveness of ‘healthy’, and over-rate that of ‘unhealthy’, foods. The bias is consistently in the direction of higher-order beliefs. Pluralistic ignorance would explain much of the results and seems clearly instantiated in one case.

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Year of publication:	2018
Authors:	albani, viviana ; bardsley, nicholas ; garcia-gallego, aurora ; georgantzis, nikos ; nocella, giuseppe

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Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	albani, viviana and bardsley, nicholas and garcia-gallego, aurora and georgantzis, nikos and nocella, giuseppe (2018): Food Norms and Preferences in Schools: is there Pluralistic Ignorance?
Classification:	C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; C93 - Field Experiments ; Z1 - Cultural Economics
Source:	BASE

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