The size of a wine bottle can influence the amount of wine drunk at home, according to the first study to examine this, which was led from the University of Cambridge. The study found that when people drank wine at home from 50cl bottles rather than the usual 75cl bottles, they drank about 4.5% less. […]
Health warning labels on alcohol and snacks may reduce consumption
Image-and-text health warning labels, similar to those on cigarette boxes, show potential for reducing the consumption of alcoholic drinks and energy-dense snacks, such as chocolate bars, according to a study from the Behaviour Change by Design team at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol. The study was published in the open access journal BMC Public […]
Wine glass size may influence how much you drink in restaurants
The size of glass used for serving wine can influence the amount of wine drunk, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge, funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR). The study found that when restaurants served wine in 370ml rather than 300ml glasses they sold more wine, and tended to sell less […]
Parents’ lenient attitudes towards drinking linked to greater alcohol use among children
Children are more likely to start drinking alcohol, drink more frequently and get drunk if their parents have a lenient attitude towards drinking, finds a study from researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia. Alcohol use is one of the biggest risk factors for social and physical harm and has […]
Meet the BSG Team: Mariliis Tael-Öeren
Meet PhD student Mariliis Tael-Öeren – the first in our new series of getting to know the people who make up the Behavioural Science Group. Mariliis is researching children’s alcohol use prevention in Estonia. For the past seven years she has been working at the National Institute of Health Development in Estonia, where she implemented […]
Labelling alcoholic drinks as lower in strength could encourage people to drink more, study suggests
Wines and beers labelled as lower in alcohol strength may increase the total amount of alcoholic drink consumed, according to a study published in the journal Health Psychology. The study was carried out by the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with the Centre for Addictive Behaviours Research at […]