Does “Yummy” Food Help You Grow and Avoid Illness? Children's and Adults' Understanding of the Effect of Psychobiological Labels on Growth and Illness

Table 2

(a) Mean number of “yummy” responses (out of a maximum of 6). (b) Mean number of “yucky” responses (out of a maximum of 6). (c) Mean number of “same” responses (out of a maximum of 6).

(a)

Age group	Tall		Fat
	Healthy	Unhealthy	Healthy	Unhealthy
Preschool	4.4	3.9	4.4	4.2
Second	3.1	1.8	2.0	3.0
Fourth	1.0	0.2	0.2	0.9
Sixth	1.7	0.2	0.2	2.3
Adults	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.9

(b)

Age group	Tall		Fat
	Healthy	Unhealthy	Healthy	Unhealthy
Preschool	0.3	0.6	0.6	0.5
Second	0.1	0.8	1.4	0.0
Fourth	0.0	0.0	1.3	0.4
Sixth	0.0	1.9	0.6	0.1
Adults	0.0	0.2	0.8	0.2

(c)

Age group	Tall		Fat
	Healthy	Unhealthy	Healthy	Unhealthy
Preschool	1.3	1.5	1.0	1.4
Second	2.9	3.3	2.7	3.0
Fourth	4.9	4.9	5.4	5.1
Sixth	4.3	3.8	4.5	3.3
Adults	5.5	5.7	5.3	5.0