Social modeling of eating: a review of when and why social influence affects food intake and choice

Social isolation is known to influence both health and longevity, but its effect on dietary habits—particularly over time and across genders—remains less understood. This study by Mehranfar et al. (2025) followed adults aged 45 and older from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, focusing on how changes in social isolation and social activity diversity from […]

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 […]