Attributions for food intake and the control of eating.

当解释为什么他们在特定情况下吃得那么多时，人们通常高估了饥饿或食物味道的作用，而低估了其他因素的影响，比如他们吃了多少食物或其他人吃了多少。这个项目将研究这些错误归因背后的动机，也将研究人们对食物摄入的归因所带来的行为和情感后果。通过这样做，本研究将对人们食物摄入的理论认识做出重大贡献，并对帮助人们适当调节食物摄入具有实际意义。

When explaining why they ate as much as they did in a particular situation, people generally overestimate the role of their hunger or the taste of the food, and underestimate the impact of other factors such as how much food they are served or how much other people eat. This project will examine the motivation behind these mis-attributions, and will also examine the behavioural and emotional consequences of the attributions people make for their food intake. By doing so, the proposed research will make a significant contribution to the theoretical understanding of people’s food intake, and can also have practical implications for helping people appropriately regulate their food intake.