| Title |
The social facilitation of eating or the facilitation of social eating?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Eating Disorders, April 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40337-017-0146-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
C. Peter Herman |
| Abstract |
People eat more when they eat in groups. Various explanations have been offered for this "social facilitation" of eating. We consider these explanations and find most of them wanting, especially insofar as they do not take into account the increased per capita provision of food when people eat together. We suggest that people often prefer to eat in groups precisely because it offers them an opportunity to overindulge. |
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| Nigeria | 2 | 13% |
| Japan | 2 | 13% |
| Greece | 1 | 6% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 6% |
| Australia | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 9 | 56% |
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| Members of the public | 12 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 13% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
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| Unknown | 82 | 100% |
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| Student > Master | 18 | 22% |
| Researcher | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 10 | 12% |
| Unknown | 25 | 30% |
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| Psychology | 23 | 28% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 5% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 13 | 16% |
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