Journal
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
Volume 100, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2022.104580
Keywords
Facial expressions; Implicit measurements; Emotions; Choice behavior; Beer
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- Asahi Quality & Innovations, Ltd.
- CAC Corporation
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This study investigates the facial expressions of beer consumers during beer tasting and explores the feasibility of using facial expressions to predict beer choices. The results show that measuring facial expressions during beer tasting is an effective method to predict consumer preferences.
Relying solely on explicit liking could lead to a misunderstanding of consumers' real intentions, ultimately resulting in the failure of a new product after its launch on the market. Analyzing facial expressions as an implicit measurement may provide a better understanding of consumers' preferences at a subconscious level by capturing their objective responses to products after tasting. Therefore, the present proof of concept study investigated facial expressions among beer consumers while tasting beer samples. The first objective was to examine the feasibility of a newly developed measurement protocol for capturing facial expressions for analysis. The second objective was to determine possible indices that may be able to predict the choice of beers after tasting. A total of 151 Japanese beer consumers who took part in two tests (n = 50 and n = 101, respectively) tasted three beer samples. The participants were video-recorded throughout the taste tests, and 10 s of video were extracted for each sample to analyze facial expressions during the tasting using an automated facial expression analyzer. Instead of directly asking about liking, choice behavior was measured after each participant tasted all three beer samples. The results suggested that measuring facial expressions during beer tasting is a feasible method that provides adequate data for effective analysis. The results also indicated the possibility of creating effective indices of facial expressions to predict the choice of beers after tasting, and that the Lip suck and Lip press expressions contributed negatively and positively to beer choices, respectively.
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