Mouth-watering words: Articulatory inductions of eating-like mouth movements increase perceived food palatability
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In: Appetite, Vol. 99, 01.04.2016, p. 112-120.
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T1 - Mouth-watering words
T2 - Articulatory inductions of eating-like mouth movements increase perceived food palatability
AU - Topolinski, Sascha
AU - Boecker, Lea
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - We explored the impact of consonantal articulation direction of names for foods on expected palatability for these foods (total N = 256). Dishes (Experiments 1-2) and food items (Experiment 3) were labeled with names whose consonants either wandered from the front to the back of the mouth (inward, e.g., PASOKI) or from the back to the front of the mouth (outward; e.g., KASOPI). Because inward (outward) wandering consonant sequences trigger eating-like (expectoration-like) mouth movements, dishes and foods were rated higher in palatability when they bore an inward compared to an outward wandering name. This effect occurred already under silent reading and for hungry and satiated participants alike. As a boundary condition, this articulation effect did occur when also additional visual information on the product was given (Experiment 3), but vanished when this visual information was too vivid and rich in competing palatability cues (Experiment 2). Future marketing can exploit this effect by increasing the appeal of food products by using inward wandering brand names, that is, names that start with the lips and end in the throat.
AB - We explored the impact of consonantal articulation direction of names for foods on expected palatability for these foods (total N = 256). Dishes (Experiments 1-2) and food items (Experiment 3) were labeled with names whose consonants either wandered from the front to the back of the mouth (inward, e.g., PASOKI) or from the back to the front of the mouth (outward; e.g., KASOPI). Because inward (outward) wandering consonant sequences trigger eating-like (expectoration-like) mouth movements, dishes and foods were rated higher in palatability when they bore an inward compared to an outward wandering name. This effect occurred already under silent reading and for hungry and satiated participants alike. As a boundary condition, this articulation effect did occur when also additional visual information on the product was given (Experiment 3), but vanished when this visual information was too vivid and rich in competing palatability cues (Experiment 2). Future marketing can exploit this effect by increasing the appeal of food products by using inward wandering brand names, that is, names that start with the lips and end in the throat.
KW - Psychology
KW - Approach-avoidance
KW - Affect
KW - Embodiment
KW - Business psychology
KW - Language Studies
KW - Articulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84955246483&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.appet.2016.01.018
DO - 10.1016/j.appet.2016.01.018
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 26792766
VL - 99
SP - 112
EP - 120
JO - Appetite
JF - Appetite
SN - 0195-6663
ER -