Measures
Age and parents’/guardians’ occupation were collected via self-report. Researchers used occupations to estimate household income based on 2018 national wage estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics [To minimize the confounding effect of food preference on consumption from the test meal, only participants who preferred the majority of the foods offered during the test meal were included in the study. To assess food preferences, test meal food items were embedded within a larger, general food preference questionnaire that has been used to identify food preferences in youth [To examine ABs, participants completed a visual dot probe task, a validated behavioral measure of food cue incentive salience in overweight samples [Adolescents were provided 30 minutes to eat Food ads embed cultural relevance by utilizing cultural food preferences [