Can the color red trick you into drinking less? A replication study

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DOLEŽALOVÁ Barbora HUBÁČKOVÁ Natalie LÁTALOVÁ Kamila VÝBOROVÁ Eliška ŽÁKOVÁ Markéta VACULÍK Martin PROCHÁZKA Jakub

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Appetite
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Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666321005262?via%3Dihub
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105619
Keywords Red color; Intake; Priming; Avoidance behavior; General avoidance motivation
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Description This replication of the study of Genschow et al. (2012) examines the effect of the color red on beverage consumption. In total, 148 men were asked to consume drinks in either red- or blue-labeled cups. Cup labels were assigned at random. Unlike in the previous study, the findings in our replication study did not provide empirical support for the hypothesis that people will drink less from red-labeled cups than blue-labeled cups. The difference between groups in drink consumption was non-significant. Thus, the red color did not have an inhibitory effect on drink intake.
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