Does social modeling increase infants’ willingness to accept unfamiliar foods
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16782834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jasmine M DeJesus (0000-0002-0981-2481, University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Shruthi Venkatesh (0000-0002-7610-5808, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 181-196 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Infancy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1525-0008 • E-ISSN: 1532-7078 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/infa.12442 |
| PMID | 34812560 |
| OpenAlex | W3215407873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 64 |
Despite a rich knowledge base about infants’ social learning and studies observing social referencing in other species in food contexts, we know surprisingly little about social learning about food among human infants. This gap in the literature is particularly surprising considering that feeding unfamiliar foods to infants is a very common experience as infants begin to eat solid foods. The present study examines whether parental social modeling influences infants’ willingness to accept unfamiliar foods. In two Zoom sessions, parents will be asked to feed unfamiliar foods to their 6‐ to 24‐month‐old infants (different unfamiliar foods in each session). In both sessions, infants’ food acceptance and rejection will be measured. In the first session, parents will be asked to do what they would typically do; spontaneous social modeling will be recorded. In the second session, parents will be instructed to model eating the unfamiliar food. We will examine associations between infants’ willingness to eat unfamiliar foods, parent social modeling, and extant parent and infant characteristics
Advertising · Developmental psychology · Extant taxon · Social learning · Child and Animal Learning Development · Language and cultural evolution · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology
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