Marine Deniau

 marine.deniau@inrae.fr

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PhD student INRAE

• AgroParisTech Engineer, specialised in products’ conception and development (2025, Palaiseau)
  

This PhD thesis aims to study and test the relative effectiveness of several levers of action to increase the proportion of pulses in consumers' eating habits.

During this PhD thesis, methodologies from cognitive psychology and consumer sciences will be developed and/or adapted in order to understand the underlying cognitive mechanisms and measure the effectiveness of each strategy using an innovative approach. The strategies studied will focus on factors interacting with food behaviour (individual and environmental factors).

The methodologies used in this work will combine:
- explicit and implicit measures to capture the possible gap between what consumers say and what they actually do;
- controlled laboratory setting and studies in more ecological environments (e.g., experimental restaurant);
- short- and medium-term measures of consumers’ eating behaviour to assess the efficacity of the strategies over time;
- a cross-cultural dimension.

In the end, the thesis will allow us to identify levers and barriers to the consumption of pulses, and will also provide effective evidence-based strategies to promote the consumption of pulses. These knowledges may be used both by researchers in the field of eating behaviour and by stakeholders.

This work is under the supervision of Juliana Meléndrez-Ruiz and Stéphanie Chambaron.

Pulses, Consumers, Interventions, Cognitive psychology, Sustainability, Eating behaviour