Mindless Eating
Is there no limit to what economists will do in the name of research? In studying the psychology of eating Cornell’s Brain Wansink fed movie goers stale popcorn and bottomless bowls of soup.
Over the years, Mr. Wansink has done similar experiments with everything from different-size dinner plates to bottomless bowls of tomato soup that are secretly connected to a tube underneath a restaurant table. His overarching conclusion is that our decisions about eating often have little to do with how hungry we are.
Conclusions? We all need to switch to the cute old diner plates.