Hunger-induced finickiness in humans.
Two experiments were conducted to examine the effect of hunger on finickiness in humans. Subjects (a total of 157 undergraduate female dieters and non-dieters) were food-deprived and then subsequently either given a snack (not-hungry group) or left food-deprived (hungry group) before being given ad libitum access to either good-tasting or bad-tasting (quinine-adultered) milkshake. Common sense predicted that hungry subjects would drink more milkshake than would not-hungry subjects, regardless of milkshake palatability. Hungry subjects did in fact drink more of the good-tasting milkshake than did not-hungry subjects, but they also drank less of the bad-tasting milkshake. We discuss possible reasons why hunger might increase rejection of bad-tasting food, as well as the limiting conditions of the effect.
Kauffman
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Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Herman
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Polivy
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D000818:Animals; D004038:Diet, Reducing; D005260:Female; D005508:Food Deprivation / Q000502:physiology*; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D006815:Hunger / Q000502:physiology*; D008892:Milk / Q000592:standards; D011803:Quinine / Q000009:adverse effects; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology
D011803:Quinine