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“No thanks,” you say when a waitress comes around with a basket of warm, freshly baked bread, even though you’re starving, because you’re out to dinner with your new boss. When we want to (a)
impress someone or make them think a certain way about us, we tend to eat less in their presence than we would if we were alone. Modest consumption is often viewed (b)
favorably―regardless of one’s gender―as it implies self-control, discipline, and that you are paying more attention to the person you are with than to your food.
In addition to wanting to make a good impression, simply being watched makes us (c)
self-conscious. This along with the anxiety about what critical observations the new boss may be making, can further (d)
enhance food intake. In Deborah Roth’s experiment in which participants were given fake information about prior volunteers, the enhancing effects of imaginary greedy eaters totally disappeared when the experimenter was in the room watching. Regardless of how much the imaginary predecessors had previously eaten, when the real participant knew she was being (e)
observed she ate very little. This kind of effect can even occur when the observer isn’t a person at all. In an experiment conducted at the University of Missouri, participants finished their meals more quickly and sometimes got up and left without finishing when they were being stared at by a life-sized bust of a human head.
① Table Manners: A Necessary Evil?
② A Solitary Meal Is Not Good for Health
③ Watching Eyes May Make You Eat Less
④ Effects of Modest Consumption on Health
⑤ Effective Ways to Stimulate Your Appetite