quantilope Report Examines the Biggest Food & Beverage Consumer Trends in 2021
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quantilopereleases its inaugural 2021 Food and Beverage Trends report.
The quantilope reports surveyed 500 US consumers (ages 18 - 69, representative to the general population) in January 2021 using an online, quantitative approach. The study includes two MaxDiff analyses and an implicit single association test (SAT) to identify how consumers are prioritizing their food and beverage choices going into the new year and where brands have an opportunity to adapt to changing preferences and trends. Top trends focus on sustainability, health, packaging, and shopping behaviors. U.S. food and beverage consumers are paying closer attention to their health following a challenging year, explained Johanna Azis, Head of Marketing - US at quantilope. Therefore, prioritizing health and sustainability in products is not only necessary to meet consumer expectations but to mainta
Implicit Racial Bias Impacts Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment, Study Finds
Researchers find that psychiatric diagnosis and treatment planning are susceptible to unconscious racial bias.
A new study in
Academic Psychiatry investigates the relationship between racial bias among psychiatrists and medical students in the US and the effects on diagnosis and treatment. The study, conducted by Amalia Londono Tobon from the Yale University School of Medicine and her colleagues, found rampant implicit racial bias among participants, which can have severe implications for their patients of color.
Tobon and colleagues measured the presence and strength of implicit associations and the relevance to how participants diagnose and treat patients and understand patient compliance. Implicit associations are unconscious, automatic, and non-deliberate judgments and thinking patterns that people might have about others. These could influence the quality of care they provide to people in those g