Abstract

Measuring food-evoked emotions dynamically during consumption can be done using explicit self-report methods such as Temporal Dominance of Emotions (TDE), and implicit methods such as recording facial expressions. It is not known whether or how dynamic explicit and implicit emotion measures correspond. This study investigated how explicit self-reported food-evoked emotions evaluated with TDE are related to implicit food-evoked emotions determined from facial expressions. Fifty-six participants evaluated six yogurts with granola pieces varying in size, hardness and concentration, using multiple bite assessment employing TDE for the first, third and fifth bite of consumption. Consumers were video recorded during each bite of consumption and facial expressions were analysed using FaceReader™. Happy, interested, disgusted and bored were similar descriptors measured explicitly and implicitly. Little overlap was observed regarding the type of emotion characterization by FaceReader™ and TDE. Products were mainly discriminated along the valence dimension (positive – negative), and directly reflected product discrimination in terms of liking. FaceReader™ further differentiated the least liked products from each other on arousal and negative facial expressions. Our results indicated little dynamics in food-evoked emotions within and between bites. Facial expressions seemed more dynamic within bites, while explicit food-evoked emotion responses seemed more dynamic between bites. We conclude that FaceReader™ intensities of emotions and dominance durations observed in TDE are not directly comparable and show little overlap. Moreover, food-evoked emotion responses were fairly stable from first to last bite and only very limited changes were observed using implicit and explicit emotions measures.

Highlights

  • Sensory perceptions of foods and beverages change dynamically during consumption due to mastication and salivation (Castura, Antúnez, Giménez, & Ares, 2016; Delarue & Blumenthal, 2015; Pineau et al, 2009)

  • This paper focuses on food-evoked emotion evaluations employing Temporal Dominance of Emotions (TDE) and FaceReaderTM

  • This study compared the temporal evolvement of food-evoked emotions using a five-bite evaluation approach employing FaceReaderTM and TDE

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Introduction

Sensory perceptions of foods and beverages change dynamically during consumption due to mastication and salivation (Castura, Antúnez, Giménez, & Ares, 2016; Delarue & Blumenthal, 2015; Pineau et al, 2009). It is suggested that self-report measures only reveal the emotion one becomes aware of, whereas parts of the complex emotion process in other subsystems remain hidden (Kahneman, 2003; Köster, 2003; Köster & Mojet, 2015; Scherer, 2005, 2009). More implicit measures, such as facial expressions might provide additional information on fast changing emotions during food consumption. Few studies compared the performance of facial expressions and self-reported food-evoked emotion measurements (He, Boesveldt, de Graaf, & de Wijk, 2016; Leitch, Duncan, O’keefe, Rudd, & Gallagher, 2015). Leitch et al (2015) compared product profiles of natural and artificial sweeteners in tea obtained with a self-reported emotion questionnaire

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