title: Hunger induced changes in food choice. When beggars cannot be choosers even if they are allowed to choose.
abstract: The present work was to examine the influence of food deprivation on food choice. For this purpose hungry versus satiated subjects were presented with a series of choices between two snacks in a complete block design of pairwise comparisons. Snacks systematically varied with respect to subjects' idiosyncratic taste preferences (preferred versus un-preferred snack), portion size (large portion versus very small portion), and availability in terms of time (immediately available versus available only after a substantial time delay). Food choices were analyzed with a conjoint analysis which corroborated the assumption that food deprivation decreases the relative importance of taste preference and increases the importance of immediate availability of food.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Röntgenring 10, D-97070 Würzburg, Germany. hoefling@psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de
authors.forename: Atilla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hoefling
authors.forename: Fritz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Strack
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D005508:Food Deprivation / Q000502:physiology; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D006815:Hunger / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D012527:Satiation / Q000502:physiology; D013649:Taste; D013997:Time Factors