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🍔🐟 Impossible Whopper, plant-based options, and farmed fishing are all discussed during this fascinating episode of HCD’s MindSet podcast! Alissa Nolden sheds light on how what we eat impacts our global environment by explaining the nuances and barriers involved in adopting plant-based diets.   

♻️ Discussing what drives eating behaviors and consumer motivation, along with brainstorming fundamental research that is yet to be explored, led to a thought-provoking episode about sustainability!  What small changes can we make to have a big impact? Is imitation meat actually helping the environment? Is plastic worse than meat?  

Meet our guest!

Alissa Nolden is an assistant professor at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the Department of Food Science who works with her colleagues and students to enhance the field of food science and human health. Alissa holds a BA and MS in Food Science from UMass Amherst and Penn State, respectively with a dual-title PhD in Food Science and Clinical Translational Science from Penn State. As an expert in sensory science, Alissa believes understanding factors influencing sensory perception and taste preferences are important in increasing consumption and creation of delicious, healthful, and sustainable foods. She has conducted consumer surveys and supported collaborative projects around plant-based foods to understand consumers motivation to consume plant-based products, with a focus on sensory attributes and personality factors that are associated with liking and intake.   

Extra Information: 

https://www.facebook.com/NoldenSensoryTeam/ 

https://www.foodsci.umass.edu/faculty/alissa-nolden

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🎙 🪢 #MindSetMonday is throwing back to Episode #16 where Kathryn and Michelle talk all about conjoint analysis! Conjoint analysis uses consumer preferences to determine the value of features through trade-offs. Interested in learning more about how it works? This is the episode for you!

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🧭 In this week’s episode of MindSet, Kathryn and Michelle are joined once again by Linnea Gandhi to explain the amazing work she is doing in Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab. During this conversation, we learn what nudge cartography is, some of the hiccups along the way, and a great discussion as to why these efforts are trying to be the Google Maps of research.

#nudge #maps #socialscience

Meet our guest!

Linnea is a PhD student and Lecturer at Wharton, studying and teaching applied behavioral and decision science. Her research focuses on building new methods to enable solution-oriented, scalable social science for use by non-academics, particularly for the fields of debiasing and behavior change. Prior to Wharton, she taught as an adjunct professor at Chicago Booth and ran a boutique consulting firm specializing in applying psychology theories and experimental methods in business.

Extra Information:

https://css.seas.upenn.edu/research/nudge-cartography/

https://css.seas.upenn.edu/ph-d-student-spotlight-linnea-gandhi/

https://oid.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/lgandhi/#research

https://css.seas.upenn.edu/behind-the-scenes-the-team-driving-nudge-cartography/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/linneanmeyer/

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💓 Because Kathryn and Michelle love the HCD MindSet listeners so much, we thought it would be fun to have a special Valentine's Day episode with Francisco Barbosa Escobar! Francisco is an interdisciplinary thinker with a lot of amazing research focusing on consumer behavior, haptics, and temperature-based crossmodal associations. Once you listen to this conversation, we are sure you will have a new appreciation for that warm, fuzzy feeling people get around their crushes.     

#temperature #haptics #associations #sensoryscience 

Meet our guest! 

Francisco Barbosa Escobar is a PhD Fellow at the Food Quality Perception and Society group at the Department of Food Science of Aarhus University, Denmark. His research focuses on temperature-based crossmodal associations, emotions, packaging, and extended reality. Before starting his PhD, Francisco obtained an MSc. in Finance from BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. Earlier, he was a junior researcher at INCAE Business School, Costa Rica.

Extra Information:

https://fbarbosaescobar.com/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fbarbosaescobar/

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🔬HCD’s MindSet was joined this week by the incredible Linnea Gandhi from the University of Pennsylvania. Linnea chat with Kathryn and Michelle about her experiences in both industry and academia that lead her to pursue a PhD in behavioral science. We also discuss the challenges and tradeoffs in “marketing your research,” along with some useful advice for researchers on sorting their way through the muck of scientific integrity, funding, and impact.

#research #overgeneralization #replicationcrisis

Meet our guest!

Linnea is a PhD student and Lecturer at Wharton, studying and teaching applied behavioral and decision science. Her research focuses on building new methods to enable solution-oriented, scalable social science for use by non-academics, particularly for the fields of debiasing and behavior change. Prior to Wharton, she taught as an adjunct professor at Chicago Booth and ran a boutique consulting firm specializing in applying psychology theories and experimental methods in business.

Extra Information:

https://css.seas.upenn.edu/ph-d-student-spotlight-linnea-gandhi/

https://oid.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/lgandhi/#research

https://css.seas.upenn.edu/behind-the-scenes-the-team-driving-nudge-cartography/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/linneanmeyer/

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🎙 🪢 #MindSetMonday is throwing back to Episode #14 where Kathryn and Michelle talk all about habits and habit loops! The crazy part? You may have a habit loop around listening to HCD's MindSet episodes! To learn about the cues, routines, and rewards that make up your life, be sure to listen to this episode!

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❇️  So what happens when you throw together a bunch of researchers? A laughter-filled conversation about research, duh! HCD’s MindSet was so lucky to have both Rachel Herz, PhD and Martha Bajec, PhD join Kathryn and Michelle for a journal club discussion about their recent publication titled, “Your Money or Your Sense of Smell? A Comparative Analysis of the Sensory and Psychological Value of Olfaction.” This special journal club episode lets us dive into the research with the scientists behind the figures and phrases to understand why they did what they did… and what is coming next.

Meet our guests!

A world-renowned expert on the psychological science of smell, Dr. Rachel Herz is a neuroscientist, TEDx speaker, and published author of both books and numerous research publications. She is also a valued consultant to international corporations, an entrepreneur, and is on the faculty at Brown University and Boston College.

Martha Bajec, PhD is the Principal at Bajec Senseworks consulting where she lends her unique expertise and perspective to researchers and leaders across CPG categories. Martha joined HCD Research in 2020 as a Consulting Director in Health and Wellness Research exploring the consumer space and has since transitioned to the Senior Scientific Consultant at HCD. In addition to providing full-service support for human testing and product evaluation, Martha’s experience innovating in highly regulated spaces ensures consideration of regulatory and compliance requirements, by design. In her spare time, Martha enjoys fermenting, extracting, and infusing natural products and foods.

Extra Information:

Journal Club Article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35326256/

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🎊 For our first episode of 2023, HCD MindSet welcomes Jose Rodriguez! Jose is a seasoned consultant with experience in both brand marketing and flavor and fragrance. In this episode, Jose chats with Kathryn and Michelle about the role of fragrance houses in the industry, what exactly a “hedonics” is, and suggestions for improving consumer research in flavor and fragrance.   

#fragrance #flavor #perfume   

Jose started his career in IT.  Working on Local-Area-Network (LAN) solutions until he took a break to get his Master’s in Business from Columbia University. After graduating, Jose joined Bestfoods working on brands like Knorr and Hellmann’s Mayonnaise, all part of Unilever today.  He then joined IFF followed by Quest which was later acquired by Givaudan. Jose then joined Coca-Cola in a Senior Commercial role, leading their Sweetener business.  In 2018 he started up a Consulting business and managed a few startups. He remains linked to the flavor and fragrance industry, consulting with a leading player.

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🎁 Here is a holiday treat for our MindSet listeners- a Journal Club WITH the researcher!

🎶 HCD’s MindSet lucked out to have drummer, dad, and neuroscientist Daniel Cameron join Kathryn and Michelle to discuss one of his recent publications exploring how music influences the body. In this episode, we dive into the research paper, “Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing at a live concert," to understand the connection between music and movement.

#music #movement #neuroscience

Link to the research

Daniel Cameron is a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He studied percussion performance at the University of Toronto (BMus, 2007), the cognitive neuroscience of music at Goldsmiths, University of London (MSc, 2011), and neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario (PhD, 2016). Daniel is interested in musical rhythm: why we like it, why it makes us want to move, and how our experience shapes our responses to it. His research has included developmental, cross-cultural, and neuroimaging methods.

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🏏🎡 Kathryn and Michelle are back at it with an episode discussing common (and concerning) neuro-myths that have recently re-emerged. From buy-buttons to mind-control, Michelle and Kathryn dive into sensationalized claims that are often taken from neuroscience or behavioral science to make a flashy title. In this episode, they talk about the advancements in technology and tools to better explore the human experience- but not without acknowledging the limitations and obstacles that may never be solved. Tune in to this episode to hear Kathryn and Michelle clear the air on misconceptions and give their opinions about where the field of “neuro-marketing” is going.   

#neuromarketing #neuromyths #misinformation

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