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Opposing effects of sugar-free claims on perceived healthiness and sweetness reduce consumers’ willingness to pay for sugar-free products
FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION. 2025. Vol. 12. Article 1644753.
The results suggest that, controlling for familiarity with the product, sugar-free labels significantly increased the willingness to pay due to the perception of sugar-free products as healthier than sugar-containing ones. However, this positive effect was overridden by a significant decrease in perceived tastiness and sweetness of products labeled as sugar-free compared to sugar-containing ones, which in turn led to a reduction in the willingness to pay. The overall effect of the label on the willingness to pay was, thus, insignificant. Additionally, we show that the effect of the label on perceived tastiness was fully mediated by perceived sweetness.
Conclusion: The opposing effects of the label on subjective product perceptions may be limiting the efficiency of sugar-free claims in changing consumer choices towards healthier food options.
Vasilieva E., Bultseva M. A., Trifonova A., Current Psychology 2026 Vol. 45 Article 1320
The current exploratory study aims to reveal identity gaps and interpersonal communication strategies used by Russians to overcome social identity crises. Based on previous research, we assume that many Russians who live both in Russia and abroad face ethnic and national identity threats and experience different social identity crises due to recent geopolitical events. This ...
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Ulgen H., Journal of International Students 2026 Vol. 16 No. 17 P. 283–312
This study reports a secondary analysis of phenomenologically informed, semistructured interviews with 15 Turkish undergraduate and graduate students at three universities in Moscow and examines how peer networks function beyond emotional buffering to support academic engagement and institutional navigation in Russian–medium higher education. Drawing on social support theory, communities of practice, and community cultural wealth ...
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Radygina A., Kulikova S., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 6 P. 963–970
Musical training has a significant impact on brain organization, leading to functional and structural
adaptations that enhance auditory, visual, motor, and cognitive processes. This study investigates how
extensive musical training shapes functional brain connectivity by comparing professional musicians and
non-musicians. Using EEG phase-locking value (PLV) analysis, we examined neural synchronization across
alpha, beta, and gamma frequency ranges during music ...
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Zolotareva A., Социальные науки и детство 2026 Т. 7 № 2 С. 66–77
Context and relevance. Early detection of anxiety and depression symptoms is a priority task for the child and adolescent mental health system. As Russian practice traditionally relies on separate instruments, assessing anxiety and depression in isolation, there is a need for integrated instruments. Objective. To examine the factor structure of the Russian version of the ...
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Iskakova B., Kleinlein E. V., Prisyazhniuk D. et al., European Journal of Education 2026 Vol. 61 No. 3 Article e70810
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Reznichenko S. I., Кияненко И. К., Nartova-Bochaver S. K. et al., Экспериментальная психология 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 10–28
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environment, there is increasing interest in biophilic attitudes — a system of stable views, beliefs, and
evaluations that reflect a person’s relationship with living nature and shape their psychological well-being and
environmentally responsible behavior. Existing tools for their measurement, such as the ...
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Context and relevance. The influence of the environment on psychological well-being has been studied in a wide variety of contexts, including workplaces, schools, healthcare facilities, and digital spaces. However, the psychological well-being of university faculty, particularly in relation to their connection to the university environment in the wide sense, remains virtually unrepresented in psychological research. ...
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Sokolova A., Psychoanalytic Psychology 2026
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beliefs and relational patterns even when they recognize their destructive nature. While psychoanalysis has
richly described resistance as a defense against painful affect and threats to internal object relations, the
process-level dynamics through which resistance persists over time have remained incompletely articulated.
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Shchebetenko S., / Series PsyArXiv "PsyArXiv". 2026.
Personality psychology owes much of its cumulative success to self- and informant-report
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methodologically, but also theoretically. I propose the attributional model of personality reporting,
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Arina Bukina, Eritsyan K., Antonova N. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2026 Vol. 17 Article 1824428
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Numerous studies have shown that indigenous populations experience poorer health outcomes compared to people with other backgrounds. However, the interpretation of these disparities remains challenging due to differences in living conditions and social environments, as well as by potential measurement-related biases. Little is known about whether the underlying mechanisms of mental health outcomes differ between ...
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Denisova V., Petrović N., Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy 2026 Vol. 44 No. 35 P. 1–16
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Shmelev I., Мир психологии. Научно-методический журнал 2026 Т. 125 № 2 С. 269–287
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Qiwei G., Ruisi W., Zhongli L. et al., Journal of Affective Disorders 2026 Vol. 412 Article 122110
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Galina Oreshina, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior 2026 Article 10919
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Arzumanyan N., Shestakova A., Moiseeva V. et al., FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION 2025
Non-communicable diseases are influenced by multiple genetic, physiological, environmental, and behavioral factors, with dietary sugar consumption representing one of the key modifiable risk determinants. Interventions aimed at reducing sugar intake often rely on persuasive health messaging by experts, yet it remains unclear whether the expertise of the narrator of the message is an indispensable component ...
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Semenova D., Molodchik M., AlterEconomics (ранее - Журнал экономической теории) 2025 Т. 22 № 2 С. 161–184
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Semenova D., В кн.: V Российский экономический конгресс «РЭК-2023». Том XIX. Тематическая конференция «Конференция молодых ученых» (сборник тезисов докладов)Т. XIX: Тематическая конференция «Конференция молодых ученых» (сборник тезисов докладов).: М.: Новая экономическая ассоциация, 2023. С. 180–184.
The article analyzes a neuroeconomic approach to assessing the willingness of consumers to pay in the food market. In particular, the key factors that are most often mentioned in the literature on consumer willingness to pay are identified and systematized, and the need to include in the list of studied factors of neural processes that ...
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Panidi K., Гребенщикова Я. С., Klucharev V., / Series 2311.09885 "arxiv.econ.GN". 2023.
In the present study, we use an experimental setting to explore the effects of sugar-free labels on the willingness to pay for food products. In our experiment, participants placed bids for sugar-containing and analogous sugar-free products in a Becker-deGroot-Marschak auction to determine the willingness to pay. Additionally, they rated each product on the level of ...
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Semenova D., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 6: Экономика 2024 Т. 59 № 2 С. 264–290
This study examines the concept of willingness to pay in the context of a neuroeconomic approach. As an additional factor influencing the consumer’s willingness to pay for food products, in particular chocolate, the author proposes to include a cognitive neuro-response, reflecting the activity of individual areas of the brain involved in making a decision about ...
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Semenova D., Kulikova S., Yulia Zaripova Shamgunova et al., Food Quality and Preference 2023 No. 107 Article 104840
Willingness to pay (WTP) for food may be influenced by multiple custom and product characteristics, including food packaging. Thus, evaluating WTP for food and the contributions of individual factors, affecting it, remains a puzzling question for many fields, such as food science, economics and marketing. In fast-growing and high-volume markets, such as the market of ...
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