The social facilitation of eating or the facilitation of social eating?

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...

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Main Author: C. Peter Herman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-04-01
Series:Journal of Eating Disorders
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40337-017-0146-2