John E. Hayes

John E. Hayes

Sensory Evaluation Center, The Pennsylvania State University

Affiliated withThe Pennsylvania State University

Research Area

Biography

John Hayes is an Associate Professor of Food Science, and Director of the Sensory Evaluation Center, at Penn State. His research team studies why people choose to eat specific foods, including spicy foods, vegetables, and alcoholic beverages. His areas of expertise are human psychophysics, taste biology, food choice, ingestive behavior, and consumer acceptability. He earned a BS and MS in Food Science from Cornell University and a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut before completing a postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral genetics and alcohol addiction at Brown University.

Dr. Hayes has published 100+ peer reviewed articles and his work has been covered in national and international media including NPR All Things Considered and Morning Edition, The Guardian, Slate, and the Wall Street Journal. He has received multiple national and international awards for his work, including the Barry Jacobs Award for research in human psychophysics, and the Ajinomoto Award for an outstanding junior scientist in the field of gustation, both from the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS), the Food Quality and Preference Researcher of the Future Award, and the Rose Marie Pangborn Sensory Science Scholarship. Dr. Hayes has received competitive funding from the US National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Agriculture, and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, as well as commodity groups and industrial partners. He currently serves as a Section Editor of the journal Physiology & Behavior, and is Chair of the Executive Committee for the Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium.

JoVE Journal Publications

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Assessment of Midline Lingual Point-Pressure Somatosensation Using Von Frey Hair Monofilaments
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2020

Other Publications

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Mary Poppins was right: Adding small amounts of sugar or salt reduces the bitterness of vegetables.

Appetite| PubMed ID: 29605517

2018
2010
2010
2011
2011
Two decades of supertasting: where do we stand?

Physiology & behavior| PubMed ID: 21851828

2011
2012
Rejection Thresholds in Chocolate Milk: Evidence for Segmentation.

Food quality and preference| PubMed ID: 22754143

2012
Wine Expertise Predicts Taste Phenotype.

American journal of enology and viticulture| PubMed ID: 22888174

2012
Rejection thresholds in solid chocolate-flavored compound coating.

Journal of food science| PubMed ID: 22924788

2012
2013
2013
2013
2012
Personality factors predict spicy food liking and intake.

Food quality and preference| PubMed ID: 23538555

2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2014
Nonnutritive sweeteners are not supernormal stimuli.

International journal of obesity (2005)| PubMed ID: 24942868

2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
2014
Polymorphisms in TRPV1 and TAS2Rs associate with sensations from sampled ethanol.

Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research| PubMed ID: 25257701

2014
2014
2015
2015
2015
2015
Perceptual mapping of chemesthetic stimuli in naïve assessors.

Chemosensory perception| PubMed ID: 26236421

2015
Consumer peach preferences and purchasing behavior: a mixed methods study.

Journal of the science of food and agriculture| PubMed ID: 26249651

2016
2015
2016
2016
An introduction to this Special Issue: Chemosensation and Health.

Chemosensory perception| PubMed ID: 26823921

2015
2016
2016
2016
2016
2016
2016
2015
2016
Chocolate not necessarily healthier or tastier.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America| PubMed ID: 27729517

2016
2017
2017
2016
2017
2017
Influence of biological, experiential and psychological factors in wine preference segmentation.

Australian journal of grape and wine research| PubMed ID: 28579910

2017
2017
2017
2018
2018
Bitter and sweet tasting molecules: It's complicated.

Neuroscience letters| PubMed ID: 29679682

2019
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2020