IBT阅读材料：Eating Food without Seeing It May Impede Ability to Judge Hunger.pdfVIP

智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料 IBT阅读材料：Eating Food without Seeing It May Impede Ability to Judge Hunger 在黑暗中用餐是近年来非常流行的一种新型用餐方式，据心理学家 的研究发现，在黑暗中用餐会让人无法依赖视觉，因此不会根据食物分 量多少来判断是否需要继续进食。 ? As psychologist Benjamin Scheibehenne and his wife left the restaurant where they had just finished dinner, they discussed whether to stop somewhere else for dessert. It was an everyday decision, one they had made countless times before, but this particular evening they could not make up their minds. ? When we came out of the restaurant, we didnt really know whether we were still hungry or not, Scheibehenne recalls. We realized we were completely clueless about how much we actually consumed. ? The couples appetite for dessert owed its ambivalence to the unusual nature of their dining experience: The Scheibehennes had visited a dark restaurant, where sight-impaired waiters serve customers their meals in a total blackout—a trend that claims to enhance the sensory experience of eating, and which has gained popularity in Europe and Asia, with some inroads into the U.S. ? Scheibehenne, a psychologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, realized that dark restaurants could provide a great setting for an experiment about how visual cues influence the way people estimate portion size and evaluate hunger. The eventual outcome was a new study published online August 13 in the journal Appetite, which suggests that an accurate judgment of satiety depends more on what we see with our eyes rather than what we put in our stomachs. ? The main result is that it seems surprisingly difficult to estimate the amount of food you consume in the absence of visual information, Scheibehenne says. The feedback your body gives you is not working very reliably. It certainly works when you overeat—when youre stuffed—but in most situations, people need visual cues to estimate quantities and hunger. ? David Zald, a psychologist who studies hunger at Vanderbilt University, was impressed with the new study. This idea that we