Eating and Cues (10-31-23)
Lopez, Choi, Dellawar, Cullen, Contreras, Rosenfeld, and Tomiyama’s work confirms that visual cues influence the amount of food consumed. As the researchers report, “Satiation can play a role in regulating eating behavior, but research suggests visual cues may be just as important. In a seminal study by Wansink et al. (2005), researchers used self-refilling bowls to assess how visual cues of portion size would influence intake. The study found that participants who unknowingly ate from self-refilling bowls ate more soup than did participants eating from normal (not self-refilling) bowls.