title: "The next mouthful will be the best": influence of prevision of the pleasure on the decision of having a second helping of a just eaten food.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Firstly, to see if the decision to have a second helping of food is related to the current evaluation of its palatability or to the predicted pleasure of a second helping of the same food. Secondly, to see if there is any relationship between subjects' BMI, their current or predicted evaluation of food palatability and their decision to have a second helping.
  
  
  METHODS
  128 guests attended a village festival with the specific purpose of eating a traditional, local soup made of beans and bacon. Subjects were asked to indicate the pleasure they felt eating the soup and the pleasure they predicted they would feel by having a second helping of the same food. Subjects were then offered a second identical portion of the above described soup.
  
  
  RESULTS
  72 subjects accepted a second helping of the soup. We discovered a significant correlation between predicted pleasure and the decision to have a second helping of the same food. There was also a significant correlation between BMI and the level of predicted pleasure of a second helping.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The decision to have a second helping of food was related to predicted pleasure and not to the pleasure that was experienced during the first helping.
authors.affiliation: "Studi Cognitivi" Post Graduate Cognitive Psychotherapy School Research Group, Foro Buonaparte, 57, 20121, Milan, Italy. piervinai@tin.it.|"GNOSIS" Research and Psychotherapy Group, V. Langhe 64, 12060, Magliano Alpi, CN, Italy. piervinai@tin.it.
authors.forename: Piergiuseppe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vinai
authors.affiliation: "GNOSIS" Research and Psychotherapy Group, V. Langhe 64, 12060, Magliano Alpi, CN, Italy.
authors.forename: Luisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vinai
authors.affiliation: "GNOSIS" Research and Psychotherapy Group, V. Langhe 64, 12060, Magliano Alpi, CN, Italy.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vinai
authors.affiliation: "GNOSIS" Research and Psychotherapy Group, V. Langhe 64, 12060, Magliano Alpi, CN, Italy.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bruno
authors.affiliation: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Stacia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Studt
authors.affiliation: "Studi Cognitivi" Post Graduate Cognitive Psychotherapy School Research Group, Foro Buonaparte, 57, 20121, Milan, Italy.|"GNOSIS" Research and Psychotherapy Group, V. Langhe 64, 12060, Magliano Alpi, CN, Italy.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cardetti
authors.affiliation: , Mondovì, Italy.
authors.forename: Donatella
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Masante
authors.affiliation: "Studi Cognitivi" Post Graduate Cognitive Psychotherapy School Research Group, Foro Buonaparte, 57, 20121, Milan, Italy.|"GNOSIS" Research and Psychotherapy Group, V. Langhe 64, 12060, Magliano Alpi, CN, Italy.
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Speciale
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004435:Eating / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D057181:Pleasure / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Obesity; Overeating; Pleasure eating food; Predicted pleasure eating food