Cereal Boxes

When you walk down the cereal aisle, do you ever get the [feeling:dealing] that Cap'n Crunch is looking at you? Well, that's just silly. He's [actually:definitely] looking at your kids. That's according to a study by Brian Wansink and colleagues at Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab. The researchers wondered whether the [characters:participants] on cereal boxes actually make eye contact. And whether that could [influence:fluency] a shopper's choice of breakfast fare. So they hit the cereal aisle. And they found that kids' cereals tend to be placed on lower [shelves:selves] than grownup offerings. What's more, Tony the Tiger and his kid-friendly pals tend to gaze downward, while the Quaker Oats guy stares straight ahead.