“Our” food versus “my” food. Investigating the relation between childhood shared food practices and adult prosocial behavior in Belgium

Backer, Charlotte De; Fisher, Maryanne L.; Poels, Karolien; Ponnet, Koen

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2014.09.022

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“…Our human ancestors likely worked together to enhance their safety and skill when hunting and would later share their catch before the meat would spoil. As a result, food sharing may have helped socialize humans for greater cooperation because shared consumption habits require that people to attend to the needs of others (DeBacker, Fisher, Poels, & Ponnet, 2015). Consistent with this proposition, responses from nearly 500 students in Belgium link the frequency of food sharing such as eating shared, family style meals with self‐reported altruistic behavior in adulthood (DeBacker et al., 2015).…”

Section: Helping and Happiness: An Overviewmentioning

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Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy

Aknin

Whillans²

2020

Social Issues Policy Review

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Perhaps one of the most reaffirming findings to emerge over the past several decades is that humans not only engage in generous behavior, they also appear to experience pleasure from doing so. Yet not all acts of helping lead to greater happiness. Here, we review the growing body of evidence showing that people engage in a wide array of prosocial behaviors (e.g., charitable giving, volunteering, blood/organ donation, offering advice, food sharing) which can promote positive emotions. Then, using self‐determination theory, a foundational theory of human motivation, we consider when and how generous actions are most likely to boost the helper's happiness—and when they are not. Finally, we leverage these insights to consider how public policy and organizations can apply this information to make prosocial action more emotionally rewarding for citizens and employees alike.

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Section: Helping and Happiness: An Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy

Aknin

Whillans²

2020

Social Issues Policy Review

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“…Research has shown good internal consistency (a ! .78) for the original version and for the Dutch version used in this study (De Backer, Fisher, Poels, & Ponnet, 2015).…”

Section: Self-report Altruism Scalementioning

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Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP): A Replication and Extension in Dutch Nonclinical Participants

Garofalo

Noteborn

Sellbom

et al. 2018

Journal of Personality Assessment

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The Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy (LSRP) scale is widely used to assess psychopathic traits in noninstitutionalized samples. Recent studies suggest that a three-factor structure measuring Egocentricity, Callousness, and Antisocial factors outperformed the original two-factor structure of the LSRP. This study replicated and extended these findings by examining the factor structure and construct validity of a Dutch version of the LSRP in a community sample (N ¼ 856, subsamples ranging between 140 and 572 participants). Confirmatory factor analysis results corroborated the superiority of the three-factor model of the LSRP, using 19 of the 26 LSRP items. Limitations included the need to specify correlated residuals for some indicators, although these were largely in line with prior studies. Across three subsamples, we found evidence for construct validity of the LSRP subscales. Egocentricity and Antisocial showed a pattern of differential associations with external correlates in accordance with theoretical expectations. Callousness shared some correlates with Egocentricity, others with Antisocial, and uniquely predicted low morality and high physical aggression. Few exceptions to the hypothesized associations were observed, mostly concerning Callousness. Overall, the LSRP three-factor model received further support in a Dutch sample, and is thus recommended in future research, possibly adding items to improve the performance of the Callousness factor.

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“…From an evolutionary perspective, however, it is not merely the presence of others while eating that induces pleasure, but also the sharing of food (De Backer, Fisher, Poels, & Ponnet, 2015). Although social interaction is considered an important source of happiness (Sugden, 2005), providing evolutionary benefits (Fredrickson, 2004; Taborsky & Oliveira, 2012), sharing food is considered key in the evolution of cooperation and human sociality.…”

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The pleasure of sharing: Can social context make healthy food more appealing?

Maldoy

Backer

Poels

2020

Psychology and Marketing

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This study investigates whether healthy food can be made more appealing by looking at the pleasure induced by the social context in which food is eaten (eating alone, eating together, or sharing food), assuming that pleasure affects food appeal. Whereas unhealthy food is often considered a source of pleasure, healthy food is not. The pleasure induced in images portraying healthy food may depend on the social context in which the food is eaten. Based on evolutionary associations of sharing food and social interaction with pleasure, we expected that eating together induces more pleasure than eating alone and that sharing food induces more pleasure than eating together. Two between‐subject experiments with a 3 (context: eating alone, eating together, or sharing food) × 2 (healthfulness: healthy or unhealthy) design were conducted across various age groups and food types. Results indicate that images in which healthy food is shared induce more pleasure than images in which healthy food is eaten alone, making the food involved more appealing. Pleasurable imagery of healthy food being shared therefore seems to hold promise as a strategy to promote healthy eating through public service or commercial advertising.

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“Our” food versus “my” food. Investigating the relation between childhood shared food practices and adult prosocial behavior in Belgium

Cited by 15 publications

References 38 publications

Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy

Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy

Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP): A Replication and Extension in Dutch Nonclinical Participants

The pleasure of sharing: Can social context make healthy food more appealing?

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