Psychology Research Group staff
Dr Catherine Day
BSc, PhD
Phone 0114 225 2437
E-mail c.day@shu.ac.uk
Research interests / current work
I am interested in the cognitive and biological influences of food choice and taste preference, particularly factors that may impact upon the development of obesity.
My PhD research examined individual differences in taste preference and eating behaviour. This involved a number of studies looking at individual difference predictors (for example, personality, body mass and sex differences) of food choice, taste and eating style using both food based taste sample measures and questionnaires.
More recently I am interested in implicit and explicit attitudes towards highly palatable foods such as highly sweet and fattening foods, and why certain people are more susceptible to over eat than others. In addition to this I am currently involved in a large scale cross-cultural study examining student food choices in a Finnish and UK sample in collaboration with Dr Sue McHale.
Research outputs - key publications
Day, C. J., McHale, S. and Francis, J. (in preparation). Individual Differences and preference for Dietary Fat using the Fat Preference Questionnaire© in a UK sample.
Day, C. J., McHale, S. and Francis, J. (2008). Building upon exiting models of food choice; can temperamental personality variables explain individual differences in sour and sweet taste preference? Psychology and Health, 23, 1, 100.
Day, C. J., Francis, J. and McHale, S. (2007). Associations between temperamental personality and taste preferences in a non-clinical population. Appetite, 50, 2, 557.
Day, C. J., McHale, S. and Francis, J. (2006). Relationship between personality and taste preference. Appetite, 47, 2-3, 262.
