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

Robinson et. al (2014) assessed the weight of evidence that experimentally manipulated information about eating habits has an impact on food choice and intake, and also reviewed studies on whether sharing with people what others’ eating habits look like has an influence on the same matter (food-related decision making). Using a narrative synthesis approach searching […]

Although social norms are believed to influence eating behavior, this 2015 article highlights that few studies have investigated the underlying mechanisms of this conformity. Thus, this study tested whether group norms can change people’s preferences for foods at both behavioral and neural levels. Firstly, hungry participants were asked to rate their preferences for various healthy […]