Personality, perceived appropriateness, and acknowledgement of social influences on food intake

We will eat disgusting foods together – Evidence of the normative basis of Western entomophagy-disgust from an insect tasting

“…Multivariate regression analyses revealed that perceived social norm in the tasting session predicted this change of heart, a finding that aligns with existing research on eating modeling (e.g. Bevelander et al, 2013;Spanos et al, 2015). The effect may, however, be somewhat inflated in the present study, given that the participants were new students placed in a college context that may have increased the salience of their new shared social identity.…”

Self-Monitoring Influences Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Own Group Conformity Pressure

“…For the third research question, the p value of .016 indicated that the OGCPS social relations between participants, and the high self-monitoring group demonstrated higher perceptions of owngroup conformity pressure that ethnicity-related backlash elicits than the low self-monitoring group. Comparison of this p value to the Bonferroni correction factor of .025 also demonstrated the was anticipated as previous studies indicate that high self-monitors are more resilient to stress in social situations because they are more likely to conform than low self-monitors (Hogue et al, 2013;Sharma & Bewes, 2011;Spanos et al, 2015;Todd & Mullan, 2014). Therefore, the observation that the high self-monitors perceived slightly more own-group conformity pressure in terms of social the high self-monitors have an enhanced ability to initially perceive own-group conformity pressure.…”

“…Similarly, undergraduate students who are high self-monitors tend to report feeling less stress than low-self-monitors (Todd & Mullan, 2014). Additional studies regarding social conformity suggest that individuals with high self-monitoring skills are more likely to conform during social situations (Hogue, Levashina, & Hang, 2013;Sharma & Bewes, 2011;Spanos, Vartanian, Herman, & Polivy, 2015). However, a gap in the conformity pressure that ethnicity-related backlash elicits.…”

“…Previous research suggests that self-monitoring is important for resilience towards the backlash effect (Bachman et al, 2011;O'Neill & O'Reilly, 2011), and this indicates that high and low self-monitors appear to perceive this form of stress differently. In conformity and self-monitoring suggest that high self-monitoring individuals are also more likely to conform during social situations (Hogue et al, 2013;Sharma & Bewes, 2011;Spanos et al, 2015). Snyder (1974) also explained that individuals who score high on the Self-Monitoring Scale (SMS) are more likely than those who score low to look for and use social comparison information from their peers.…”

Overeating in Restrained and Unrestrained Eaters

“…Despite decades of research on the strength of social factors in determining eating behavior [e.g, (10,(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)], even when asked specifically about such influences, people seem unaware or unable to acknowledge that eating is not solely, or even primarily, determined by physical factors (34). Does this mean that "appropriate eating" is simply determined by hunger and satiety?…”