ABSTRACT
There are many different influences on food choice, a number of which are discussed in this book. There is a comparable diversity in the methodological approaches that can be taken to investigate the topic. This chapter outlines the background to our research into the effects of stress on food choice, and provides a rationale for the methods that were used. The data collected in this project are extensive, so they will not be presented in detail here. Rather, some findings will be outlined to give a sense of the associations between stress and food choice that we identified.
