Men tend to overeat when eating in the company of women. According to a new study The researchers say that overeating may be connected to t...
Men tend to overeat when eating in the company of women. According to a new study The researchers say that overeating may be connected to the device are displayed or specify the domain name. (Daniel Miller | Cornell University)
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A new study found that in men overeating correspond to impress a potential partner. Cornell University researchers have found that men tend to eat more when. In the presence of women in relation to the food, how much they eat when the men
Approximately 105 people between 18 and 81 years, were eaten in an Italian buffet observed by researchers in two weeks. the number of dishes Pizza slices and salad was consumed by each recorded. Sex partner or partners the individual was also observed.
Before you leave the pizza restaurant, we asked people to fill out a short questionnaire indicated his feeling of comfort and haste while eating, and their degree of saturation after eating.
The researchers found that men, large amounts of salad and pizza restaurant consume with women. Men who ate with women consume 86 percent more lettuce and 93 percent more pizza or 1.44 rate.
The study found that women eat differently, regardless of the gender of their dining partners. Women who ate with men were more likely to consider themselves eaten. They also reported they feel have been pressured and had eaten too much.
"These results suggest that men show a tendency to overeat - you can see this trend in food contests that almost always for most men have participants", Kevin Kniffin, lead author of the study.
Kniffin said that the idea of something among the women of the food has been under investigated in the past. The women eat supposedly less if you eat in the company of people, he said, but his study focused on to this idea.
"Our work is analyzed the opposite question and found evidence that people tend to" eat mostly "in the company of women," Kniffin.
Kniffin he said evolutionary psychology tested theory called sexual selection. It is well known that people point to other, are generally, when it is ready to show the attraction or show dominance.
He also said that although eating disorders were studied in women in the past, has food disorders in men have not been thoroughly investigated.
the study also of Özge Sigirci, a former visiting professor at the Cornell University Food and Professor Brian Wansink, director of the Food and Brand Lab was conducted by Kniffin.
The results of the study are evolutionary in the journal Psychological Science.
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