CHANGING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Changing Consumer Behavior and Influencing the Food Environment

SUMMARY Promoting consumption of healthier grain-based foods is clearly an important challenge for public health and industry alike. In practice, however, public health and marketing initiatives are frequently characterized by dependence on superficially plausible but unsound research data and naïve assumptions about human behavior. As a result, many initiatives are compromised from the outset ...

Human, Environment and Sustainable Development

Human Behavior and the Interior Environment

Changing balance: environment and individual.

The role of occupational therapy as a process for changing balance from dysfunction to function is discussed in this paper. The individual as the first level environment to be considered for balance in the occupational therapy process is emphasized. The role of purposeful activity as a change determinant and as a valued treatment modality is recognized as a practice factor that needs verificati...

Human foraging behavior in a virtual environment.

We have developed an experimental platform that allows a large number of human participants to interact in real time within a common virtual world. Within this environment, human participants foraged for resources distributed in two spatially separated pools. In addition to varying the relative replenishment rate for the two pools (50-50, 65-35, or 80-20), we manipulated whether the participant...