The Company You Keep Influences How Much You Eat
4,676 views · Published 24 August 2009 · 3:33 · Indexed 27 October 2026
Channel: Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business · 2009 · Education
Thin friends who eat a lot could put your waistline in danger. That's the warning from researchers studying how other people's weight and food choices influence how much we eat. Researchers from Duke University, the University of British Columbia and Arizona State University used snack foods, an obesity prosthesis, and the ruse of a study related to movies to track how students' food consumption was influenced by a companion. Their findings will appear online this week in the Journal of Consumer Research.
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