有些人会因压力食欲不振，另一些人则会在压力过大时从食物中寻求慰藉。不过，这些行为从长远来看可能会趋于平衡：发表在《心理科学》（Psychological Science）上的一项研究发现，在压力下改变饮食习惯的人，实际上会在卸掉压力后对不那么健康的冲动进行弥补。
研究中，参与者自称为“吃货”和“食物冷淡者”，前者会在压力下会倾向于吃得更多，后者则会在压力下会吃得更少甚至不吃。每位参与者都须要通过视频聊天与另一个人互动，目的是为了稍后的线下见面。每次视频互动后，参与者会收到一条消息，内容是对方决定不见面（社交排斥，负面情境）或表示很期待见面（社交接纳，正面情境）。对照组的参与者会在收到消息后被告知研究临时取消（中性情境）。随后，研究人员为所有参与者提供了冰淇淋——想吃多少就吃多少。
不出所料，对于被拒绝的“吃货”……[查看全文]
Overeating Due to Stress?
If you over-eat or under-eat as a reaction to stress, don't worry, your body may compensate to balance you over time. Christie Nicholson reports
Stress can make some people (me included) lose our appetite. Other folks find comfort in food. But such behaviors may actually even out in the long term. Because researchers find that people who change eating patterns when stressed out may actually make up for those not-so-healthy impulses during easier times. So finds a study in the journal Psychological Science.
Volunteers for the study self-identified as either “munchers” or “skippers”. Each person had to interact with another person via video chat, with the intention of meeting them later. After each video interaction participants received a message either stating that their partner decided not to meet them, or that they were excited to meet them. As a control, some participants were told the study had just been canceled. Then the researchers offered ice cream to everyone—as much as they wanted.
The munchers who got rejected...[full transcript]
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