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Games Involving Candy Stimulate Kids' Appetites (www.ru.nl)
An anonymous reader writes: Most of us are aware by now of the myriad internet games created not for their own sake, but as a marketing tool for another product. But we're not the target audience for these games — kids are. New research out of Radboud University found that two-thirds of all kids around primary school age play one of these games at least once a week, and almost none of them are aware that they're advertisements (abstract). Worse, the game-ads are really effective. "..shortly after playing a game with an embedded food advertisement, children ate 55% more of the candy offered to them than children who had played a game with an embedded toy advertisement." The researchers further add that "it does not matter whether the games are about candy or fruit: children eat more candy after playing a game involving food."
Show a kid yummy junk food and candy, kid wants to eat yummy junk food and candy
Marketers will shamelessly and consciencelessly sell whatever they want to sell
Nothing to see here, move along, move along..
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Posts involving summaries involving games involving candy stimulate my appetite... ...for CANDY.
Who gives candy to children at school? What are they training these kids for?
I hate to do the "when I was a kid", but no one gave us candy in school, and we only got it at home rarely, such as for Halloween and major holidays.
When I wanted candy, I had to earn money and go buy it.
Maybe these kids should go get a job instead of sitting around, playing games and eating candy.
When I was a kid, all we had to play with was fire. And we were glad to have it.
So you gave them a game that showed food and let them play for a while, then put a bowl of candy in front of them ... and they ate the candy ...
So ... just curious, have you ever put a bowl of candy in front of a kid and they DIDN'T EAT IT?
Yea, thats what I thought. Kids eat candy when given the opportunity, film at 11, big break through in child psychology!@$!@$!@$
You could have saved yourself the study and just asked any parent. Of course, these are the people who will immediately tell me how to raise my child because 'they've studied it' yet none of them will be socially capable of forming a relationship long enough to actually have one of their own.
Other amazing nuggets from the study:
Fat kids like to eat
Showing kids food makes them want to eat (If only someone had made a dog salivate or something as a test sometime in the past we would have figured this out sooner!)
Advertising works when done properly
God damn, I wished I had some common sense in a can, I could have saved you a fuckton of money and time and you wouldn't have been contributing to the problem with your retarded study
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In other news, watching cooking shows makes you hungry. What a scandal!
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"... ate 55% more of the candy offered to them than children who had played a game with an embedded toy advertisement."
But how many ate the toys?
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... well then don't give the little shits any candy.
Problem solved.
It all began with the radio/tv show Space Patrol. That's when targeting children really began to take control of children's minds. Gotta sell those breakfast cereals...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Patrol_(1950_TV_series)
Can it be that kids who like candy chose games involving food? (No, I didn't RTFA.)
Games Involving Candy Stimulate Kids' Appetites
it does not matter whether the games are about candy or fruit: children eat more candy after playing a game involving food
So while the headline is technically correct (not always the best kind of correct), it's not the whole story. Games with food ads increase appetite. Games about fruit increase appetite.
Obvious answer: offer kids fruit instead of candy.
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Might I suggest that Slashdot refrain from posting articles about some study that only found behind a paywall, especially if the study purports to arrive at some psychological or sociological conclusions? There's just way too many crap studies being covered and promoted by crap journalists, and having the opportunity to examine a study directly is necessary oftentimes to determine if its credible, or if the journalist has competently summarized it.
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After playing Roller Coaster Tycoon... building the little food shops always made me hungry.
Yeah?
This research is a real crusher for the candy industry. They should move on to viking sagas and soda production.
I'll bet this is your tax dollars at work...
Following that logic we should push broccoli games on kids.