Association between eating behaviour and diet quality: eating alone vs. eating with others

This 2020 study tries to address the limited evidence on the effect of social contexts on people’s food choice. This experiment tested the extent to which disadvantageous social contexts influence food choice in healthy, non-dieting participants. Three established experimental methods were used to create social contexts such as giving the subjects varying amounts of money […]

Eating in response to stress can become a habit with long-term effects, such as weight gain, but little research has focused on ways to break this cycle. Park et al. (2024) investigated whether daily social resources might serve as protective factors against stress-induced eating and subsequent weight gain. In Study 1 (N = 1,264), the […]