The audience eats more if a movie character keeps eating: An unconscious mechanism for media influence on eating behaviors

Zhou, Shuo; Shapiro, Michael A.; Wansink, Brian

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2016.10.028

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“…Is Mukbang sufficient? This discussion raises a number of interesting contrast cases that are worth pausing to consider (see also Zhou et al, 2017).…”

Section: Technology Connectsmentioning

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Digital Commensality: Eating and Drinking in the Company of Technology

2019

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Commensality is a key aspect of social dining. However, previous research has identified a number of pros and cons associated with the incorporation of digital technology into eating and drinking episodes. For instance, those who are distracted by digital technology may eat/drink more (that is, they may overconsume) as a result of their failure to attend to the food-related sensations that are thought to cue the termination of eating. Similarly, it has often been suggested that the use of mobile devices at mealtimes can disrupt the more commensal aspects of dining/drinking (at least among those who are physically present together). At the same time, however, looking to the future, it seems clear that digital technologies also hold the promise of delivering opportunities for enhanced multisensory experiential dining. For instance, they might be used to match the auditory, visual, or audiovisual entertainment to the eating/drinking episode (e.g., think only about watching a Bollywood movie while eating a home-delivery Indian meal, say). Indeed, given the growing societal problems associated with people dining by themselves, there are a number of routes by which digital technologies may increasingly help to connect the solo diner with physically co-located, remote, or even virtual dining partners. In this review of the literature, our focus is specifically on the role of technology in inhibiting/facilitating the more pleasurable social aspects of dining, what one might call "digital commensality." The focus is primarily on Westernized adults with reasonable access to, and familiarity with, digital technologies.

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“…Is Mukbang sufficient? This discussion raises a number of interesting contrast cases that are worth pausing to consider (see also Zhou et al, 2017).…”

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Digital Commensality: Eating and Drinking in the Company of Technology

2019

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“…Character values in a film have style and shape in various movie scenes (Haq et al, 2019). Characters have the purpose of influencing the audience (Zhou et al, 2017). [Maleficent turns to face Aurora with tears in her eyes] Maleficent : Hello, cruel.…”

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Deconstruction of maleficent characters in the movie titled 'maleficent'

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Wardhani

2021

lingcure

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The purpose of this study was to analyze 1) Maleficent character deconstruction, 2) female image deconstruction in the story, and 3) character values ??contained in the studied films. The research method used is a qualitative method with an emphasis on the character of Maleficent. Data collection techniques used are literature study techniques or documentation studies. The data analysis technique analyzes the content or text-based deconstruction survey theory, which begins with selecting data from the rewatching film 'Maleficent' and the rereading of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. The idea was used to search for opposition binaries and analyze Maleficent's character both in the film and in the original fairy tale. The results showed that Maleficent's existence was deconstructed into a figure of a magic woman who was kind, compassionate, motherly and always maintained the calm and safety of Princess Aurora. Deconstruction takes place on other supporting characters in evil films, such as the king and princess Aurora. The deconstruction can be seen in the image of women depicted in the film. Princess Aurora's image is deconstructed into a vital, assertive, straightforward, brave, and critical figure.

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“…This is consistent with our finding that personalization only in-fluenced people's actual behavior in the free-exercise session but not people's intention to exercise in the week following the experiment. According to the vicarious goal contagion theory, people would unconsciously adopt the goal of another person when observing the person performing a behavior, especially when they are similar to the person [28]. Similarity here refers to the manipulated similarity rather than the self-report measure of perceived similarity.…”

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Using Virtual Reality to Promote Physical Activity

Zhou¹

2020

JSEA

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The purpose of this research is to develop an immersive virtual fitness center as an intervention to promote physical activity and examine its impacts on users' exercise plans and exercise behaviors. The virtual reality (VR)-based intervention includes three main features: enabling the users to control their avatar, personalizing the avatar to look the same as the user, and visualizing the positive consequences of exercising. We conducted an experiment to randomly assign participants to two treatment groups: experiencing either the self or another person losing weight because of exercising in the virtual environment. The findings demonstrated that the self-avatar group exercised more in the voluntary section than the other-avatar group. However, participants in the self-avatar condition perceived a lower level of sense of presence compared to participants in the other-avatar condition. Compared to people in the control condition who watched and followed the exercise from a workout video, those who exercised in the virtual fitness center, regardless of whether the avatar was based on the self's image or another person's image, planned to spend more time on exercising in the following week. Theoretical and practical implications for using VR technology to promote health-related behavioral change, and why personalization decreases perceived sense of presence in the virtual environment are discussed.

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The audience eats more if a movie character keeps eating: An unconscious mechanism for media influence on eating behaviors

Cited by 19 publications

References 60 publications

Digital Commensality: Eating and Drinking in the Company of Technology

Digital Commensality: Eating and Drinking in the Company of Technology

Deconstruction of maleficent characters in the movie titled 'maleficent'

Using Virtual Reality to Promote Physical Activity

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