ArticleAppetite2012
More than just a pretty face. The relationship between infant's temperament, food acceptance, and mothers' perceptions of their enjoyment of food.
Article in Appetite, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Facial Action Coding System for Characterization of Human Affective Response to Consumer Product-Based Stimuli: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Communicating hunger and satiation in the first 2 years of life: a systematic review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2016Pooled it
- Do Human Fetuses Form Long-Lasting Chemosensory Memories? Longitudinal Follow-Up From Fetus to Young Child of Facial Responses to Flavor/Odor Stimuli.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Sweetness Ratings of U.S. Infant Formulas.Nutrients · 2025Article
- The Regulation of Energy Intake in Infancy: A Narrative Review.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Using facial reaction analysis and machine learning to objectively assess the taste of medicines in children.PLOS digital health · 2024Article
- Mapping perceived sentiments in university campuses with varied landscape metrics and climatic conditions.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Development of a live coding method to assess infant/toddler food acceptance.Maternal & child nutrition · 2022Article
- Infant and Toddler Responses to Bitter-Tasting Novel Vegetables: Findings from the Good Tastes Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- Epigenetics and Modulations of Early Flavor Experiences: Can Metabolomics Contribute to Prevention during Weaning?Nutrients · 2021Review
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- Temperament in obesity-related research: Concepts, challenges, and considerations for future research.Appetite · 2019Review
- Exploring Correlates of Infant Clarity of Cues During Early Feeding Interactions.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2019Article
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- Moments of Pleasure: A Preliminary Classification of GustatoryFrontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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- Does Temperament Underlie Infant Novel Food Responses?: Continuity of Approach-Withdrawal From 6 to 18 Months.Child development · 2018Article
- Biological and Psychosocial Processes in the Development of Children's Appetitive Traits: Insights from Developmental Theory and Research.Nutrients · 2018Review
- Food Consumption Patterns and Micronutrient Density of Complementary Foods Consumed by Infants Fed Commercially Prepared Baby Foods.Nutrition today · 2018Article
- The Relationship between Infant Facial Expressions and Food Acceptance.Current nutrition reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
The goal of the present study was to determine whether mothers' assessment of their infants' temperament is associated with objective measures of the infant's acceptance patterns and their judgments of the infants' liking of a green vegetable. To this end, infants (N=92) were video-recorded as their mothers fed them green beans. From these videos, we determined the frequency of facial distaste expressions made during the first 2 min of the feeding. Other measures included intake, maternal ratings of infants' enjoyment of this vegetable, and temperament. Infants who scored high on the approach dimension of the temperament questionnaire were less likely to express facial expressions of distaste, consumed more food, and were perceived by their mothers as enjoying the food more. Mediation analyses revealed that ratings of enjoyment were not directly related to the child's approach temperament, but rather the relationship between mothers' ratings and temperament was mediated by the amount of time infants spent eating the vegetable. Regression analyses suggested that in addition to the length of time children ate, mothers' ratings of their infants' enjoyment was predicted by the number of squints that the infant expressed during the meal. These findings suggest that although certain aspects of children's temperament are related to their food acceptance, mothers attend to facial expressions and time spent eating independently of these temperamental characteristics when judging their infant's enjoyment of a food. Understanding how mothers use this information to decide which foods to feed their infants is an important area for future research.
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