Relationship between visually based food preference and amount eaten.
29 male and 44 female undergraduates were given a rod-and-frame test and allowed free access to white and colored cookies. Rod-and-frame scores were higher for females than males but were not related to percentage overweight. The ratio of white to colored cookies chosen was related to total cookies eaten. The theoretical implications of these results are then considered.
D002755:Choice Behavior; D003118:Color Perception; D004435:Eating; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology