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> his famous “Bottomless Bowls” study concluded that people will eat soup indefinitely if their supply is constantly replenished. Huh? That's not what the stud
by jwilk 9y ago
> his famous “Bottomless Bowls” study concluded that people will eat soup indefinitely if their supply is constantly replenished.
Huh? That's not what the study concluded.
Participants who were unknowingly eating from self‐refilling bowls ate more soup […] than those eating from normal soup bowls. However, despite consuming 73% more, they did not believe they had consumed more, nor did they perceive themselves as more sated than those eating from normal bowls.
Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1038/oby.2005.12 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1038/oby.2005.12
- pbreit 9y agoPerhaps not “indefinitely” but the description doesn’t seem unreasonable.