1. Loss Aversion of Time: Serving School Lunches Faster without Impacting Meal Experience.
- Author
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Sharma A, Moon J, and Bailey-Davis L
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Child, Choice Behavior, Diet, Female, Humans, Male, Meals, Nutrition Policy, United States, Efficiency, Food Preferences, Food Services, Lunch, Schools, Students
- Abstract
Loss aversion has been extensively studied in economics, but there is less discussion of it in the context of time. Results from a field experiment conducted in a U.S. public school lunch cafeteria suggest that students could be loss averse to time and that interventions, such as a pre-plated service lane could increase the speed of service and guide students to make better food choices. Faster, pre-plated service lanes may leverage loss aversion bias, be beneficial for larger schools, reduce wait time for students, and thereby increase their satisfaction with the service process.
- Published
- 2018
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