Current Studies | Penn State College of Health and Human Development

Two boys sit at a table and eat together

The Children's Eating Behavior Lab is currently conducting the following studies in the areas of appetite, food portion's impact on obesity risk, and food advertising's influence on responses to food.

Slices of red apple sit in a bowl on a table.

Apple Study

This five-visit study investigates how food in different forms (solid, liquid, semi-solid) affects appetite in children 4-6 years old.

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Project REACH

This five-visit study investigates how food advertising influences children's eating behaviors and their brain responses to foods, in children 7-9 years old.