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A Prehistoric Foraging Strategy May Be Why We Eat More Around Friends, Study Suggests - Newsweek
The amount of food people eat tends to be profoundly influenced by the company they share while taking their meal, and may be linked to evolutionary psychology, a study led by researchers from the University of Birmingham found.
The study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on October 4, was based on a meta-analysis of 42 previously conducted studies into the "social facilitation" of food consumption, according to a release from the University of Birmingham in England.
The analysis found that a person's meals could be 29 to 48 percent larger when they ate with friends as opposed to when they ate alone, according to the British Psychological Society. Another study found that a person consumed an average of 23 percent more calories when they ate with company.
The amount of food people eat tends to be profoundly influenced by the company they share while taking their meal, and may be linked to evolutionary psychology, a study led by researchers from the University of Birmingham found.
The study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on October 4, was based on a meta-analysis of 42 previously conducted studies into the "social facilitation" of food consumption, according to a release from the University of Birmingham in England.
The analysis found that a person's meals could be 29 to 48 percent larger when they ate with friends as opposed to when they ate alone, according to the British Psychological Society. Another study found that a person consumed an average of 23 percent more calories when they ate with company.