Eating to impress: Men eat more food when dining with women

Science Daily ^ | November 17, 2015 | Cornell Food & Brand Lab

[sparklite2]

"These findings suggest that men tend to overeat to show off -- you can also
 see this tendency in eating competitions which almost always have mostly
male participants," explains lead author Kevin Kniffin, PhD, of Cornell University.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

LOL. So when my wife starts giving me dirty looks about how much I’m ordering when we go out, its really a sign that she is impressed with me?

[ETL]

Could also be to avoid dopey conversation.

[EQAndyBuzz]

We eat more to prolong the date. Why we do that, I have no clue.

[refreshed]

Wow. Talk about bad science. Somebody needs to look up the words “causation” and “correlation” in the dictionary before doing another study!

[jimmygrace]

So size (of the plate) does matter?

[Paladin2]

Nothing wrong with trying to attract a good cook....

[ThomasThomas]

Do women know this?

[sparklite2]

Your wife may be giving you the look
because she thinks your loading up
with food is flirting with all the
women in the place. ;)

[trisham]

What kind of woman would choose to have a meal at a pizza buffet?

[Fido969]

Women eat less.

[Mears]

I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a pizza buffet.

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[DJ Taylor]

I hope tax payers (me) didn’t pay for this “study.”

[trisham]

:)

[ClearCase_guy]

The amount that women ate didn't differ when eating with other women or with men.

I'm calling BS on that.

[laplata]

I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a pizza buffet.

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I didn’t either until I peeked around a big, heavy set couple and saw it.

[Jim from C-Town]

They have to do something with their mouths, the women won’t let them get a word in edgewise.

Ba-dum-bump!

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

BINGO!

[SnuffaBolshevik]

"What kind of woman would choose to have a meal at a pizza buffet?"

Umm...a hungry one?

[ThomasThomas]

How about belching. It is a sign of gratitude for the food in some cultures isn’t it?