Habit persistence across six U.S. tourism sub-industries is estimated using a dynamic forward looking model. Estimates show that habits largely determine current expenditure for air transportation, shopping, accommodation, and other transportation. Estimated uncompensated price elasticities find transport accommodation are elastic in the short-run long-run. Shopping inelastic but An important r...

I review below some of the research on social learning in Norway rats carried out in my laboratory from 1969 to 1980. Two independent lines of research arc discussed; both involve analysis in the laboratOry or possible instances of social learning first described by observers or frec-livin!" wild rats. Tht' 1st research program analyzes social interactions important in the transmission of karnc...

Input data from Students Food Behavior, Preference and Lifestyle Questionnaire conducted with 376 students from University “Dunarea de Jos” Galati (UDJG) were analyzed from socio-demographic criteria. The sample socio-demoraphic characteristics of the student population were investigated beside the general food & eating habits by gender. In the current study, most than three quart of students (...

This paper presents a behavioral economics model with bounded rationality to describe an individual's food consumption choices that lead to weight gain and dieting. Using a physiological relationship determining calories needed to maintain weight, we simulate the food consumption choices of a representative female over a 30-year period. Results show an individual will periodically choose to die...

We leverage behavioral economics to explore new approaches to tackling child food choice and consumption. Using a field experiment with >1500 children, we report several key insights. We find that incentives have large influences: in the control, 17% of children prefer the healthy snack, whereas introduction of small incentives increases take-up of the healthy snack to ∼75%. There is some evide...

Habit-like eating behavior is repeatedly pointed to as a key cognitive mechanism contributing the emergence and maintenance of obesity. Here, we conducted systematic review literature assess existent behavioral evidence for Habit Hypothesis Overeating (HHO) which states that obesity consequence an imbalance between habit goal-directed reward learning systems, leading overconsumption food. We fo...

BACKGROUND In young men, unhealthy lifestyle behaviours can be detrimental to their physical and/or mental health and set them on a negative health trajectory into adulthood. Despite this, there is a lack of evidence to guide development of effective health behaviour change interventions for young men. This study assessed the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the 'HEYMAN' (Harnessing Ehea...