How communications that portray unhealthy food consumption reduce food intake among dieters

This 2013 article by Berridge & Kringelbach marks the progress seen in the understanding of pleasure or positive affect (hedonia) and the process of wanting, liking, and learning. The authors also note the lack of knowledge accumulated so far on how one feels a meaningfulness or engagement in life, otherwise known as eudaimonia. The hedonic […]

In this study by Zhang et al. (2022), the authors investigate how the aesthetics in food plating influence our perception of food, motivated by the increasing level of interest in food aesthetics. Using a set of three experiments, the authors evaluated if variable levels of plate aesthetics (expressive, i.e. food that was creative and had […]