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Searching for flavor labels in food products: the influence of color-flavor congruence and association strength

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, March 2015
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Title
Searching for flavor labels in food products: the influence of color-flavor congruence and association strength
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Frontiers in Psychology, March 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00301
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Carlos Velasco, Xiaoang Wan, Klemens Knoeferle, Xi Zhou, Alejandro Salgado-Montejo, Charles Spence

Abstract

Prior research provides robust support for the existence of a number of associations between colors and flavors. In the present study, we examined whether congruent (vs. incongruent) combinations of product packaging colors and flavor labels would facilitate visual search for products labeled with specific flavors. The two experiments reported here document a Stroop-like effect between flavor words and packaging colors. The participants were able to search for packaging flavor labels more rapidly when the color of the packaging was congruent with the flavor label (e.g., red/tomato) than when it was incongruent (e.g., yellow/tomato). In addition, when the packaging color was incongruent, those flavor labels that were more strongly associated with a specific color yielded slower reaction times and more errors (Stroop interference) than those that were less strongly tied to a specific color. Importantly, search efficiency was affected both by color/flavor congruence and association strength. Taken together, these results therefore highlight the role of color congruence and color-word association strength when it comes to searching for specific flavor labels.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 2 2%
Japan 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 122 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 31 25%
Student > Master 18 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 10%
Researcher 11 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 18 14%
Unknown 29 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 31 25%
Psychology 24 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 6%
Neuroscience 7 6%
Social Sciences 6 5%
Other 21 17%
Unknown 29 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 December 2020.
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#2,578,827
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#5,080
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#32,808
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#114
of 473 outputs
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