TY - JOUR
T1 - Do children who exhibit food selectivity prefer to save the best (bite) for last?
AU - Borrero, John C.
AU - Rosenblum, Amy K.
AU - Castillo, Mariana I.
AU - Spann, Matthew W.
AU - Borrero, Carrie S.W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was conducted in partial fulfillment of the second author's requirements for the MA degree at UMBC. The authors would like to thank Jolene Sy for her comments and suggestions on a prior version of this manuscript and Eric Beall, Meara McMahon, Carrie Miklos, Katie Kaminski, and Brigitte Wieciech for their assistance with data collection and analysis. Amy Rosenblum is now with the May Institute.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - Preference for patterns of outcomes that improve over time is termed negative time preference, in economics. In lay terms, this concept equates to “saving the best for last.” Generally, adults tend to prefer to postpone their more preferred outcomes when options are presented as a sequence of events. Event sequencing seems particularly relevant for children who exhibit food refusal or selectivity. Preference for the sequencing of bites when an array involved preferred and relatively non-preferred foods was evaluated. Participants experienced pre-programed bite sequences that improved, worsened, or remained fixed across trials, and we assessed participants' preference for each of the bite sequences. Three of the four participants preferred bite sequences that began with a highly preferred food and either worsened or remained fixed over time, whereas one participant preferred the improving sequence of bite presentation, or in other words, one participant preferred to “save the best for last.”.
AB - Preference for patterns of outcomes that improve over time is termed negative time preference, in economics. In lay terms, this concept equates to “saving the best for last.” Generally, adults tend to prefer to postpone their more preferred outcomes when options are presented as a sequence of events. Event sequencing seems particularly relevant for children who exhibit food refusal or selectivity. Preference for the sequencing of bites when an array involved preferred and relatively non-preferred foods was evaluated. Participants experienced pre-programed bite sequences that improved, worsened, or remained fixed across trials, and we assessed participants' preference for each of the bite sequences. Three of the four participants preferred bite sequences that began with a highly preferred food and either worsened or remained fixed over time, whereas one participant preferred the improving sequence of bite presentation, or in other words, one participant preferred to “save the best for last.”.
KW - autism spectrum disorder
KW - choice
KW - negative time preference
KW - positive time preference
KW - saving the best for last
KW - translational research
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U2 - 10.1002/bin.1845
DO - 10.1002/bin.1845
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85119700185
SN - 1072-0847
VL - 37
SP - 529
EP - 544
JO - Behavioral Interventions
JF - Behavioral Interventions
IS - 2
ER -