[tips] Food that looks like feces

2009-09-24 Thread Wuensch, Karl L
There are thousands. Check out the extensive food habits literature. For your amusement, see Rozin's research on nonacceptance of foods that look like feces. See Rozin, P., & Fallon, A. E. (1987). A perspective on disgust. Psychological Review, 94, 23-41. Cheers, Karl W. -Origin

re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Patrick Dolan
Along the lines of Mike Palij's recent post, Suparna Rajaram (currently at Stony Brook) was on a Psychological Science paper ~10 years ago looking at whether amnesiacs would eat multiple meals in a row if they were offered them (I think they did). (And Lexa Logue was delightful when I spent a s

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Deborah S Briihl
There is a ton of research - I can forward you my syllabus on the psych of food if you want. Britt, Michael wrote: >I'm noodling with an idea and I was wondering if anyone in tips land >can help. Do you recall any research studies involving food in any way? > >Thanks, > >Michael > > >Michae

[tips] Psychology courses involving other biological imperatives

2009-09-24 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
Many departments offer an Environmental Psych course, which (if taught in its classic style, as opposed to the emerging sustainability emphasis orientation) will have a fair amount of discussion of housing and physical living and work space. -- Paul Bernhardt Frostburg State University Frostburg,

re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Mike Palij
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:08:03 -0700, MichaelBritt wrote: >I'm noodling with an idea and I was wondering if anyone in tips >land can help. Do you recall any research studies involving food >in any way? A couple of points: (1) There seems to be a growing literature on false memory and food, poss

RE: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Rick Froman
OK, can we just cut it out now with the food and body puns... :) Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3055 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu (479)524-7295 http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Steven Specht
Check out the website for the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behaviors On Sep 24, 2009, at 9:07 AM, Britt, Michael wrote: > I'm noodling with an idea and I was wondering if anyone in tips land > can help. Do you recall any research studies involving food in any > way? > > Thanks, > > Mich

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Capreol/Molnar
There is also a big body of research on the impact of food (especially lack there of in dieting) and mood and subsequent eating patterns. Cheers, Martha - Martha Capreol, PhD RPsych Changeways Clinic - Original Message - From: "Tarner, Prof. Nina L." To: "Tea

RE: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Marc Carter
Cool! I'd like to know how it goes. It probably won't have the draw that sex does, but it seems to me to be a really interesting mix of physiology and culture. m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- > -O

RE: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Tarner, Prof. Nina L.
I am going to propose in my department a special topics course called "The Psychology of Eating". Nina Nina L. Tarner, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Psychology HC 219 Department of Psychology Sacred Heart University Fairfield, CT. 06825 (203) 371-7915 (203) 371-7995 Fax

RE: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Tarner, Prof. Nina L.
Michael, There is an excellent book out called "Why We Eat What We Eat" by Elizabeth Capaldi. I use it all the time in my learning class and reference it repeatedly in my papers. Nina Nina L. Tarner, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Psychology HC 219 Department of Psychology Sacred Heart Universit

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread John Kulig
Michael - there is alot out there. Do you have a new direction for the research or are you looking for already established lines? My next big project will be in the areas of food/religion/culture. Just a few random thoughts. Food intake & weight are not kept within homeostatic limits (unlike Wa

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Britt, Michael
Thanks everybody for all the suggestions. I'm still checking them all out. And by the way, my use of the word "noodling" was an unintentional pun on my part. Leave it up to Gary to notice it. PS: I can't believe I didn't think of the infamous marshmallow study! Michael Michael Britt mich

RE: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Jim Matiya
Michael, Are you looking for specific published studies or classroom activities involving food? JIm Jim Matiya Florida Gulf Coast University jmat...@fgcu.edu Contributor, for Karen Huffman's Psychology in Action, Video Guest Lecturettes John Wiley and Sons. Using David Myers' texts for

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Beth Benoit
Here's a youtube video of the marshmallow experiment. I'm having trouble with my computer, so can't view this, but the description sounds right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7LN96jEXHc&feature=popular Beth Benoit Granite State College

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Christopher D. Green
Britt, Michael wrote: > I'm noodling with an idea and I was wondering if anyone in tips land > can help. Do you recall any research studies involving food in any way? > There was the study (perhaps someone can help with me tha author) in which bowls of soup were rigged to automatically refill i

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread michael sylvester
I was not aware that Thomas Jefferson invented french fries. Michael --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)

RE: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Marc Carter
This thread is making me wonder. Almost every psych department offers a course on sexuality, which is a complex, culturally-layered biological "imperative." Does anyone know if the other, culturally-layered biological imperative, food, is offered from psych departments? Housing, too, I suppos

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Gerald Peterson
You are noodling over food? I am sure TIPS can provide a feast of possible references you may find to your taste. GP Gerald L. (Gary) Peterson, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology Saginaw Valley State University University Center, MI 48710 989-964-4491 peter...@svsu.edu - O

RE: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Frantz, Sue
There's all of Linda Bartoshuk's work on taste. For example: http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3294_peppers.html -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, Coordinator    Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404 

RE: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Tarner, Prof. Nina L.
Hi Michael, Zellner has done a lot of research looking at food preferences in humans using food. Nina Nina L. Tarner, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Psychology HC 219 Department of Psychology Sacred Heart University Fairfield, CT. 06825 (203) 371-7915 (203) 371-7995 Fax __

RE: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Dennis Goff
Beauchamp has done some interesting research on the development of preference for salt in infants and young children. You might like Paul Rozin and others' work on disgust For example The child's conception of food: the development of food rejections with special reference to disgust and contam

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Gerald Peterson
Paul Rozin's stuff on magical thinking in relation to disgust and contamination. Older work where foods were colored and shaped in various ways---purple mashed potatoes, etc and this presumably affected taste? Don't recall ref tho. Gary Gerald L. (Gary) Peterson, Ph.D. Professor, Depar

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Ken Steele
Check out Brian Wansink's work. http://www.mindlesseating.org/ Ken Britt, Michael wrote: I'm noodling with an idea and I was wondering if anyone in tips land can help. Do you recall any research studies involving food in any way? Thanks, Michael Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.com ww

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread gaddy001
A collegue recently shared the following study with me: http://www.smallplatemovement.org/doc/big_popcorn_buckets.pdf She and I are both thinking of trying to create an assignment related to this article in our statistics courses (e.g., an assignment where students discuss and critique the des

RE: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Bourgeois, Dr. Martin
Off the top of my head: -the delay of gratification studies with kids & marshmallows -Stanley Schachter's studies on the effects of external cues on eating - the recent aggression studies where the dependent variable is how much hot sauce people measure out to give to someone who hates hot sauce.

[tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Britt, Michael
I'm noodling with an idea and I was wondering if anyone in tips land can help. Do you recall any research studies involving food in any way? Thanks, Michael Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.com www.thepsychfiles.com --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (b

[tips] Could not resist.

2009-09-24 Thread michael sylvester
The Mayor of Memphis welcomed the Dalai Lama to the city with the words "Hello Dolly". Michael --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)

[tips] TIPSTER OF THE WEEK

2009-09-24 Thread michael sylvester
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