Remco C Havermans
Biographic Data
| ID | 1743486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Remco C Havermans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Remco C |
| FAMILY NAME | Havermans |
| SIGNATURE | HAVERMANS R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5832-8357 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 285 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The initial development and validation of a child-oriented food literacy questionnaire
Objective: The Dutch Children’s Food Literacy Questionnaire (DCFLQ) was developed and validated to assess food literacy among children aged 8–12 years. The DCFLQ is structured around farm-to-fork principles, including questions on food production, distribution, consumption, waste, and sustainability. Design: After initial item pool creation, the DCFLQ was developed in collaboration with experts and children. The validation process included assess…
Food rejection is associated with tactile sensitivity and tactile appreciation in three-year-old children
Food rejections are common in young children and often include healthy foods, hereby impairing the quality of their diet. Previous studies indicate that food texture may play a role in children's food preferences and intake. Building on these findings, as part of an ongoing longitudinal project, the present study investigated whether food rejection is related to tactile sensitivity and tactile appreciation in three-year-old children. A total of 2…
What's in a name? Examining the confusion of meat-like terminology on meat imitating plant-based products
Meat alternatives are becoming increasingly popular amongst consumers. The names on these products, specifically the use of meat-like designations on non-animal products, remains a major point of contention. The aim of this study was to investigate whether meat-like vs. non-meat-like names are potentially confusing or even misleading. In this study, a categorisation task was used where participants classified products as animal-based or plant-bas…
Exploring within-meal variety to promote appeal of home-cooked meals in older adults
Undernutrition is highly prevalent in older adults and poses a major threat to physical and mental wellbeing. To foster healthy eating (and healthy aging), strategies are needed to improve dietary quality of older adults. In this study, the feasibility of increasing food variety in home-cooked meals is explored as strategy to promote meat and vegetable consumption in community dwelling older adults. Adults aged 50 years or older (N = 253) evaluat…
Food development with children: ‘Insect snack balls for kids’
Claims highlighting health benefits may promote vegetable consumption: A cross-national comparison of consumer perspectives on the importance of vegetable taste, health, and nutrition
A longitudinal evaluation of smell and taste function in children with cancer during and after treatment with chemotherapy
Smell and taste changes are bothersome treatment symptoms interfering with food intake. It remains unclear how and when children with cancer experience such changes during chemotherapy, and if the symptoms resolve after treatment. In this longitudinal study, we measured smell and taste function of 94 childhood cancer patients treated for hematological, solid, or brain malignancies. Smell and taste function were assessed using commercial Sniffin' …
Factors affecting public acceptance of healthy lifestyle nudges
Child characteristic correlates of food rejection in preschool children: A narrative review
Promoting vegetable acceptance in toddlers using a contingency management program: A cluster randomised trial
Children learn to accept novel foods by repeated exposure to these foods. In the current study, we investigated in toddlers whether a contingency management program (The Vegetable Box), comprising repeated vegetable taste exposure with contingent non-food rewards, is particularly potent at increasing recognition of and willingness to try vegetables. A total of 598 children (1-4 years old) recruited at 26 different day-care centres in the Netherla…
Fake meat or meat with benefits? How Dutch consumers perceive health and nutritional value of plant-based meat alternatives
Animal agriculture has a large impact on the environment. Hence, there is an increasing demand for meat alternatives - more sustainably produced plant-based products that replace meat as meal component. Demands for meat alternatives also seem to be fuelled by consumers' belief that meat alternatives are healthier than meat products. In an online questionnaire study, we examined whether consumers indeed perceived meat alternatives to be healthier,…
Experiential nutrition education at primary schools: A retrospective cohort study
Sweetness in a glass: A study on children’s sweet preference and sensitivity
Food rejection is associated with affective response to textures in three-year-old children
Child-reported vegetable neophobia is associated with risk avoidance for distaste in children aged 4–15 years
Children who are food neophobic and/or picky eaters often refuse intake of especially fruits and vegetables, thereby narrowing their dietary variety and impairing the quality of their food intake. In this preregistered study, we investigated whether picky eating and food neophobia are related to bitter taste sensitivity (PROP taster status) and risk avoidance for distaste. A total of 367 children (201 girls; M age = 8.7 years, range: 4-15 years) …
Positive psychological traits are associated with dietary behavior during the Covid-19 The impact of taste and smell changes in children with cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A qualitative study
Vegetable neophobia is associated with risk avoidance for distaste in children
The impact of the nutri-score on food choice: A choice experiment in a Dutch supermarket
Cognitive Influences on Sensory-Specific Satiety and Food Intake
Does labelling a food as ‘light’ vs. ‘filling’ influence intake and sensory-specific satiation
Although several studies have investigated the influence of nutrition labelling on food intake, the effect of labels indicating a food's satiating power on food intake and sensory-specific satiation (SSS) is poorly understood. We investigated whether providing information about the satiating power of a meal affects intake and SSS. Participants (19 men and 18 women) consumed the same test meal of pasta salad ad libitum on two occasions, once descr…
Promoting vegetable acceptance in toddlers using a contingency management program: A cluster randomised trial
Adolescents’ reasons for (not) eating plant-based foods
Sensory-specific satiety, the variety effect and physical context: Does change of context during a meal enhance food intake
Food variety has been shown to increase food intake, and sensory-specific satiety (a relative decrease in pleasantness of a food as it is consumed) has been proposed as the mechanism through which variety increases consumption. The aim of this study was to investigate whether variation of eating context can add to experienced meal variety and hence increase consumption even further. A total of 128 participants were assigned to one of four conditi…
Sensory-Specific Satiety, the Variety Effect and Physical Context: Does Change of Context During a Meal Enhance Food Intake
Taste the texture. The relation between subjective tactile sensitivity, mouthfeel and picky eating in young adults
Impulsivity in obese women
Food liking, food wanting, and sensory-specific satiety
Happy eating. The underestimated role of overeating in a positive mood
Feel your food. The influence of tactile sensitivity on picky eating in children
Increasing children's liking of vegetables through flavour–flavour learning
Bits and pieces. Food texture influences food acceptance in young children
Impulsivity makes more susceptible to overeating after contextual appetitive conditioning
High tax on high energy dense foods and its effects on the purchase of calories in a supermarket. An experiment
Eating and inflicting pain out of boredom
Negative affect and cue-induced overeating in non-eating disordered obesity
Taste the texture. The relation between subjective tactile sensitivity, mouthfeel and picky eating in young adults
Exposure to binge food in bulimia nervosa: Finger pulse amplitude as a potential measure of urge to eat and predictor of food intake
Emotional eating and Pavlovian learning: Does negative mood facilitate appetitive conditioning
Stimulus specificity but no dishabituation of sensory-specific satiety
Jolly fat or sad fat
How partial reinforcement of food cues affects the extinction and reacquisition of appetitive responses. A new model for dieting success
How to tell where ‘liking’ ends and ‘wanting’ begins
Child-reported vegetable neophobia is associated with risk avoidance for distaste in children aged 4–15 years
Children who are food neophobic and/or picky eaters often refuse intake of especially fruits and vegetables, thereby narrowing their dietary variety and impairing the quality of their food intake. In this preregistered study, we investigated whether picky eating and food neophobia are related to bitter taste sensitivity (PROP taster status) and risk avoidance for distaste. A total of 367 children (201 girls; M age = 8.7 years, range: 4-15 years) …
Sensory-specific satiety, the variety effect and physical context: Does change of context during a meal enhance food intake
Food variety has been shown to increase food intake, and sensory-specific satiety (a relative decrease in pleasantness of a food as it is consumed) has been proposed as the mechanism through which variety increases consumption. The aim of this study was to investigate whether variation of eating context can add to experienced meal variety and hence increase consumption even further. A total of 128 participants were assigned to one of four conditi…
Neural predictors of chocolate intake following chocolate exposure
Impulsivity in the supermarket. Responses to calorie taxes and subsidies in healthy weight undergraduates
Overcoming ego depletion: The influence of exemplar priming on self‐control performance
Self‐regulation research suggested that active self‐control depends on a limited resource. Therefore the capacity for self‐control is lower among people who already exercised control, a phenomenon labelled as ego depletion. This experiment examines whether priming of a persistent person exemplar may help to overcome ego depletion. Half of the participants engaged in a demanding self‐control task (solving extremely difficult labyrinths) whereas th…
Food rejection is associated with tactile sensitivity and tactile appreciation in three-year-old children
Food rejections are common in young children and often include healthy foods, hereby impairing the quality of their diet. Previous studies indicate that food texture may play a role in children's food preferences and intake. Building on these findings, as part of an ongoing longitudinal project, the present study investigated whether food rejection is related to tactile sensitivity and tactile appreciation in three-year-old children. A total of 2…
Sensory-specific satiety is impervious to the tasting of other foods with its assessment
Factors affecting public acceptance of healthy lifestyle nudges
Exposure to binge food in bulimia nervosa: Finger pulse amplitude as a potential measure of urge to eat and predictor of food intake
Impulsivity in obese women
Using flavour–flavour learning to increase children's liking of vegetables
Increasing children's liking of vegetables through flavour–flavour learning
Overcoming ego depletion: The influence of exemplar priming on self‐control performance
Self‐regulation research suggested that active self‐control depends on a limited resource. Therefore the capacity for self‐control is lower among people who already exercised control, a phenomenon labelled as ego depletion. This experiment examines whether priming of a persistent person exemplar may help to overcome ego depletion. Half of the participants engaged in a demanding self‐control task (solving extremely difficult labyrinths) whereas th…
Negative affect and cue-induced overeating in non-eating disordered obesity
Weight, gender, and the reward value of food
Jolly fat or sad fat
Working for snack food: The role of dietary restraint
Manipulation of taste intensity does not affect the development of sensory-specific satiety
Single-trial exercise-induced taste and odor aversion learning in humans
Food liking, food wanting, and sensory-specific satiety
Exercise-induced flavour aversion learning in humans
Reinforced with snacks. BMI makes the difference
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The validity of the Debq External Eating Scale and the critical role of depression
Sensory-specific satiety is impervious to the tasting of other foods with its assessment
“You Say it's Liking, I Say it's Wanting …”. On the difficulty of disentangling food reward in man
Consumer behavior influenced by taxing high-energy dense products and subsidizing low-energy dense products: The role of impulsivity
Food reward processing in overweight and healthy weight participants during unbiased viewing and taste evaluation
High tax on high energy dense foods and its effects on the purchase of calories in a supermarket. An experiment
Olfactory dysfunction, sensory satiation and the lost ability to derive pleasure from eating
Food reward in the anorectic brain
Impulsivity in the supermarket. Responses to calorie taxes and subsidies in healthy weight undergraduates
Prevalence of post traumatic stress disorder among patients with substance use disorder. It is higher than clinicians think it is
Sensory-specific satiety and the variety effect
Psychology (67 works) · Medicine (46 works) · Developmental psychology (28 works) · Food Science (27 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (26 works) · Cognitive psychology (25 works) · Biology (22 works) · Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods (19 works) · Neuroscience (18 works) · Taste (18 works)