Public and health professionals' misconceptions about the dynamics of body weight gain/loss

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dc.contributor.authorAbdel-Hamid, Tarek
dc.contributor.authorAnkel, Felix
dc.contributor.authorBattle-Fisher, Michele
dc.contributor.authorGibson, Bryan
dc.contributor.authorGonzalez-Parra, Gilberto
dc.contributor.authorJalali, Mohammad
dc.contributor.authorKaipainen, Kirsikka
dc.contributor.authorKalupahana, Nishan
dc.contributor.authorKaranfil, Ozge
dc.contributor.authorMarathe, Achla
dc.contributor.authorMartinson, Brian
dc.contributor.authorMcKelvey, Karma
dc.contributor.authorSarbadhikari, Suptendra Nath
dc.contributor.authorPintauro, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorPoucheret, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorPronk, Nicolaas
dc.contributor.authorQian, Ying
dc.contributor.authorSazonov, Edward
dc.contributor.authorVan Oorschot, Kim
dc.contributor.authorVenkitasubramanian, Akshay
dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Philip
dc.contributor.otherUnited States Department of Defense
dc.contributor.otherUnited States Navy
dc.contributor.otherNaval Postgraduate School
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Utah
dc.contributor.otherUS Department of Veterans Affairs
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Los Andes Venezuela
dc.contributor.otherVirginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
dc.contributor.otherVTT Technical Research Center Finland
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Tennessee Knoxville
dc.contributor.otherUT Institute of Agriculture
dc.contributor.otherMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
dc.contributor.otherFlorida International University
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Vermont
dc.contributor.otherUniversite de Montpellier
dc.contributor.otherShanghai University
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.contributor.otherBI Norwegian Business School
dc.contributor.otherNorth Carolina State University
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-28T19:38:33Z
dc.date.available2023-09-28T19:38:33Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractHuman body energy storage operates as a stock-and-flow system with inflow (food intake) and outflow (energy expenditure). In spite of the ubiquity of stock-and-flow structures, evidence suggests that human beings fail to understand stock accumulation and rates of change, a difficulty called the stock-flow failure. This study examines the influence of health care training and cultural background in overcoming stock-flow failure. A standardized protocol assessed lay people's and health care professionals' ability to apply stock-and-flow reasoning to infer the dynamics of weight gain/loss during the holiday season (621 subjects from seven countries). Our results indicate that both types of subjects exhibited systematic errors indicative of use of erroneous heuristics. Indeed 76% of lay subjects and 71% of health care professionals failed to understand the simple dynamic impact of energy intake and energy expenditure on body weight. Stock-flow failure was found across cultures and was not improved by professional health training. The problem of stock-flow failure as a transcultural global issue with education and policy implications is discussed. Copyright (C) 2014 System Dynamics Societyen_US
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dc.identifier.citationAbdel-Hamid, T., Ankel, F., Battle-Fisher, M., Gibson, B., Gonzalez-Parra, G., Jalali, M., Kaipainen, K., Kalupahana, N., Karanfil, O., Marathe, A., Martinson, B., McKelvey, K., Sarbadhikari, S. N., Pintauro, S., Poucheret, P., Pronk, N., Qian, Y., Sazonov, E., Oorschot, K. V., … Murphy, P. (2014). Public and health professionals’ misconceptions about the dynamics of body weight gain/loss. In System Dynamics Review (Vol. 30, Issues 1–2, pp. 58–74). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/sdr.1517
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/sdr.1517
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9814-2522
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9814-2522
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5847-678X
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6769-2732
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2319-0818
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9970-7513
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7329-5095
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0644-2267
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7261-8868
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4747-6383
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7792-4234
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/11660
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell
dc.subjectSYSTEMS THINKING INVENTORY
dc.subjectDECISION-MAKING
dc.subjectEDUCATION
dc.subjectOBESITY
dc.subjectTASK
dc.subjectManagement
dc.subjectSocial Sciences, Mathematical Methods
dc.titlePublic and health professionals' misconceptions about the dynamics of body weight gain/lossen_US
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