ReviewCurrent research in food science2022
What is the link between personality and food behavior?
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- Spicy Food and Chili Peppers and Multiple Health Outcomes: Umbrella Review.Molecular nutrition & food research · 2022Pooled it
- Do routinized eating behaviors support weight loss? An examination of food logs from behavioral weight loss participants.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Article
- Spicy Personality: On the Relationship Between Personality Traits and the Preference for Spicy Foods.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Conceptual Framework for Nutritional Psychology as a New Field of Research.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Gender Moderates the Associations Between Responsiveness to Alarming Oral Sensations, Depressive Symptoms, and Dietary Habits in Adolescents.Nutrients · 2025Article
- How material sensory properties and individual differences influence the haptic aesthetic appeal of visually presented stimuli.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Are explorers greener? Investigating the role of personality traits, connectedness to nature and attitudes toward exploring in various pro-environmental behaviors.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- You Eat How You Think: A Review on the Impact of Cognitive Styles on Food Perception and Behavior.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
A number of personality characteristics have been linked to various aspects of taste (gustation), trigeminal, and olfactory perception. In particular, personality traits have been linked to olfactory sensory thresholds and olfactory identification abilities, as well as to the sensory-discriminative aspects of taste/flavour perception. To date, much of the research in this area has focused on Sensation Seeking (including Experience Seeking, and Openness to Novel Experiences), with the latter being linked to a preference for spicy, and possibly also crunchy, sour, and bitter foods/drinks. Novelty-seeking has also been linked to a preference for salty foods, while anxious individuals appear to enjoy a much narrower range of foods. A bidirectional link has also been documented between taste and mood. Certain of the personality-based differences in taste/flavour perception and food behaviour have been linked to differences in circulating levels of neurotransmitters and hormones in both normal and clinical populations. Taken together, therefore, the evidence that has been published to date supports a number of intriguing connections between personality traits and taste perception/food behaviour.
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