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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026

From intention-behavior gap to dietary affordances: an active inference account of sustainable eating.

Abigail McIntosh, Amy R Griffiths, Anthony Brennan, Hayley A Young

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Abigail McIntoshSchool of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom.
Amy R GriffithsSchool of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom.
Anthony BrennanSchool of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom.
Hayley A YoungSchool of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

Faced with the urgent challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, governments, and frameworks like the EAT-Lancet Commission advocate for sustainable diets. Yet a persistent gap remains between individuals' intentions to eat sustainably and their actual behavior. Current approaches often attribute this gap to deficits in individual attitudes or motivation. In this paper, we challenge that view. We introduce the construct of dietary affordances to describe how opportunities for action emerge from the interplay between individuals and their environments. Drawing on ecological psychology and contemporary active inference accounts of perception and action, we formalize dietary affordance as a relative selection weight shaped by three components: pragmatic value

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active inferencebehavior changedietary affordanceintention–behavior gappublic health policysustainable dietssystems thinking

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PMID42643492
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