Decision Making in Eating Behavior: Interacting Perspectives from the Individual, Family, and Environment - April 14-15, 2008 Decision Making in Eating Behavior: Interacting Perspectives from the Individual, Family, and Environment - April 14-15, 2008 Decision Making in Eating Behavior: Interacting Perspectives from the Individual, Family, and Environment - April 14-15, 2008
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Decision Making in Eating Behavior: Interacting Perspectives from the Individual, Family, and Environment - April 14-15, 2008

FINAL AGENDA

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Meeting Objectives:  To discuss the state of research in decision making and examine those areas that can potentially be applied to the field of nutrition, especially in the area of sustaining positive behavior change and to stimulating research interest in this area.

Meeting Framework:  The meeting is being organized to provide significant audience participation.  Each session will include a plenary speaker who will provide an overview of the session topic, followed by presentations by various panelists who will speak on the topic from their unique perspectives.  A moderated question and answer session will follow the panelists’ presentations to allow full interaction among the speakers.  

Day 1:  Monday, April 14, 2008
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Welcome/Introduction
Dr. Van Hubbard and Dr. Wendy Johnson-Taylor
 

Session 1:  Understanding Different Routes to a Decision (Introduction by Dr. Wendy Johnson-Taylor, Plenary and Panel)

9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m. Dr. Alex Rothman (Plenary)
Following the Reasoned and the Reactive Path of (Food) Decision Making: How Innovations in Theory Can Lead to Innovations in Practice
  Panel 1
9:20 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. Dr. Wendy Wood, Duke University
Consumption Habits: Boon and Bane of Self-Regulation
9:40 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Dr. Paschal Sheeran, The University of Sheffield
“The Road to Hell”: Problems Translating Intentions into Action and the Benefits of If-Then Plans
10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Dr. Janet Metcalfe, Columbia University
A Hot-Cool System Analysis of Goal-Directed Volition: Substituting Self-Control for Stimulus Control
10:20 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Break
10:50 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. Moderated Question-and-Answer Session
Moderator:  Dr. Susan Czajkowski
11:50 a.m. – 1:05 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
   

Session 2:  Individual Differences in Psychological and Biological Determinants of Food Choice (Introduction by Dr. Deborah Olster, Plenary and Panel)

1:05 p.m. – 1:25 p.m. Dr. Jane Wardle (Plenary)
Appetitive Behaviors Are Heritable Phenotypes Associated with Adiposity
  Panel 2
1:25 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Dr. Dana Small, Yale University
Individual Differences in the Neurophysiology of Food Reward
1:45 p.m. – 2:05 p.m. Dr. David Zald, Vanderbilt University
Orbitofrontal Cortex Contributions to Food Selection and Decision Making
2:05 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. Dr. Richard Shepherd, University of Surrey
Social Cognition Models and Food Choice
2:25 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. Break
2:55 p.m. – 3:55 p.m.

Moderated Question-and-Answer Session
Moderator:  Dr. Wendy Nelson

3:55 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.

Day 1 Wrap-Up
Dr. Christine Bachrach

5:30 p.m. Group Dinner (own expense)
   

Day 2:  Tuesday, April 15, 2008
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Registration
8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.

Introduction to Day 2
Introduction by Dr. Christine Hunter (Plenary and Panel)
   

Session 3:  Understanding Decision Making in an Interpersonal and Family Systems Context

8:15 a.m. – 8:55 a.m. Dr. Ardyth Gillespie (Plenary)
Family Food Decision-Making: An Ecosystems Perspective
  Panel 3
8:55 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Dr. Elaine Wethington, Cornell University
Contributions of the Life Course Perspective to Research on Family Decision-Making:  Social Constraints and Individual Agency
9:15 a.m. – 9:35 a.m. Dr. Sandra Hofferth, University of Maryland
Decision-Making in Eating Behavior:  The Family Context
9:35 a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Break
10:05 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.

Moderated Question-and-Answer Session
Moderator:  Ms. Rachel Fisher
11:05 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
   

Session 4:  Understanding the Potential Impact of Environmental Factors and Socio-Cultural Factors on Food Decision Making (Food Availability, Advertising, and Time Culture) (Introduction by Dr. Andrew Narva, Plenary and Panel)
12:20 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Dr. Simone French (Plenary)
Spaghetti Junction:  Multilevel Environmental Perspective on Food Choices
  Panel 4
1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. Dr. David Just, Cornell University
Food, Behavioral Economics, and Food Policy
1:20 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Dr. Jeff Sobal, Cornell University
Constructing Food Choices
1:40 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Break
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Moderated Question-and-Answer Session
Moderator:  Dr. Charlotte Pratt
3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Synthesis/Reactant (Introduction by Dr. Amy Yaroch)
Dr. Tracy Orleans, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Research Insights from a Policy Perspective

Dr. Ellen Peters, University of Oregon
Research Insights from a Psychological Perspective

Dr. Mary Story, University of Minnesota
Research Insights from a Nutritional Perspective

3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Closing Comments
Dr. Pamela Starke-Reed

4:00 p.m. Adjournment