Amy Galloway Ph.D.

Dr. Galloway: "My lab is currently exploring the development of eating behavior. We are interested in examining how picky eating behavior develops in children and adults. In particular, we would like to know more about how parent and child interactions around food influence eating habits in children. My research assistants and I are currently exploring the development of adult picky eating behavior and the influence of parental use of pressure on eating behavior".

There are 12 included publications by Amy Galloway Ph.D.:

TitleDateViewsBrief Description
‘Finish Your Soup’: Counterproductive Effects of Pressuring Children to Eat On Intake and Affect 2006 3665 The authors examined whether pressuring preschoolers to eat would affect food intake and preferences, using a repeated-measures experimental design. In the experimental condition, children were pressured to eat by a request to finish their food. We c...
Infant Tufted Capuchin Monkeys’ Behaviour with Novel Foods: Opportunism, Not Selectivity 1997 2241 To determine whether young capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, selectively interacted with others concerning novel foods, 11 infants (4.5–12 months) living in two groups were observed following presentation of familiar or novel foods. Foods were present...
Parental Child Feeding Practices: How Do Perceptions Of Mother, Father, Sibling, And Self Vary? 2014 846 Mothers are important contributors to the development of eating behavior in children, but less is known about the in?uence of fathers. The purpose of this study was to investigate family perceptions of parental child feeding practices. Seventy two-pa...
Parental Pressure, Dietary Patterns, and Weight Status among Girls Who Are "Picky Eaters" 2005 2869 Objective: To determine whether mothers’ fruit and vegetable intake and mothers’ use of pressure in the feeding domain when their daughters were 7 years old predicted picky eating and dietary intake when their daughters were 9 years old, and to exami...
Predicting Ideal Body Mass Index: What Does Clothing Size Have To Do With It? 2011 1666 This study examined demographic and anthropometric variables as predictors of ideal body mass index (BMI) from cross-sectional, archival, self-reported data from the Psychology of Size Survey of 4014 U.S. residents collected in 2007. As hypothesized,...
Predictors and Consequences of Food Neophobia and Pickiness in Young Girls 2003 3697 Objective: Vegetable intake among children is well below recommended levels. We assessed whether food neophobia and pickiness contribute to low vegetable intake in school-aged girls and if there are distinct predictors for neophobia and pickiness. Ch...
Retrospective Reports of Child Feeding Practices, Current Eating Behaviors, and BMI in College Students 2010 1781 Research concerning child feeding practices has focused on children and adolescents, and little is known about how feeding practices used in childhood relate to eating behaviors and weight status in early adulthood. We assessed college students’ and ...
The Role Of Child Temperament In Parental Child Feeding Practices And Attitudes Using A Sibling Design 2011 1473 Although previous research indicates that parental child feeding practices are one component of a bidirectional relationship between children and parents, little is known about how child temperament operates in this relationship. The purpose of this ...
Sibling Eating Behaviours and Differential Child Feeding Practices Reported by Parents 2009 2437 The purpose of this study was to investigate the intra-familial relationships between parental reports of feeding practices used with siblings in the same family, and to evaluate whether differences in feeding practices are related to differences in ...
Social Facilitation of Eating Familiar Food in Tufted Capuchins (Cebus apella): Does it Involve Behavioral Coordination? 2005 2552 Social facilitation of eating familiar foods might serve to synchronize eating activities within groups. We aimed to assess whether capuchins (Cebus apella) are prompted to eat when observing other conspecifics eating a familiar food. Subjects wer...
The Sources of Skill in Seriating Cups in Children, Monkeys and Apes 2002 1717 Is a concept of either reversibility or of hierarchical forms of combination necessary for skilled seriation? We examined this question by presenting seriating cups to adult capuchin monkeys and chimpanzees and to 11-, 16- and 21-month-old children. ...
Specific Social Influences On the Acceptance of Novel Foods In 2–5-Year-Old Children 2005 5163 Social influences have been shown to be very important to overcome food neophobia in young children. However, there is no experimental evidence about whether social influences on food acceptance are specific, that is if models eating the same food as...