Social and immediate environmental influences on food selection.
The current environmental stimuli that may often override biological regulation as influences on food selection are considered, eg time of day, food availability, convenience and variety of foods, the media, conditions of eating a meal, emotions. Schachter's hypothesis that overweight people are more responsive to external stimuli than leaner peers is examined and new work to test the theory is reported.
D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005518:Food Preferences; D006801:Humans; D006815:Hunger; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology*; D012931:Social Environment; D013997:Time Factors