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Nudging green food: The effects of a hedonic cue, menu position, a warm‐glow cue, and a descriptive norm
Department of Psychology University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3177-5389
Department of Psychology University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden.
Department of Space, Earth and Environment Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3530-6870
Department of Psychology University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9160-8553
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2023 (English)In: Journal of Consumer Behaviour, ISSN 1472-0817, E-ISSN 1479-1838, no 3, p. 557-568Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Sustainable development
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Abstract [en]

Meat consumption is associated with both public health risks and substantial CO2 emissions. In a large-scale field-experiment, we applied four nudges to the digital menus in 136 hamburger restaurants. The nudges promoted vegetarian food pur- chases by either (1) changing the menu position of vegetarian food, or aligning vege- tarian food with (2) a hedonic, taste-focused nudge, (3) the warm-glow effect, or (4) a descriptive social norm. These nudges were thus aimed to shift salience toward a cer- tain goal or the salience of a specific alternative. Vegetarian food purchases were measured in two datasets analyzing if nudges affected customers' “route” to ordering vegetarian food (29,640 observations), and the total number of vegetarian food sold during the intervention (346,081 observations). Results showed that the position nudge affected customers route to buying vegetarian food. More specifically, making the “green category” more accessible made more customers order through that cate- gory. Interestingly, this did not affect the total number of vegetarian sales. However, results indicate that nudges that utilize the salience of goals, in particular hedonic goals, may have an overall positive effect on total vegetarian sales.

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Wiley , 2023. no 3, p. 557-568
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-192299DOI: 10.1002/cb.2129ISI: 000903318900001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-192299DiVA, id: diva2:1742918
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Mistra Sustainable Consumption
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Swedish Research Council Formas, 2019‐02005The Kamprad Family Foundation, 20200135Mistra - The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental ResearchAvailable from: 2023-03-13 Created: 2023-03-13 Last updated: 2024-01-15

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