Whatever you do, don’t read the poster below. Just scanning an entreaty to exercise, it seems, encourages the innocent to help themselves to another helping. It’s true. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that people who viewed
posters suggesting that they “join a gym†or “take a walk†ate more
food after looking at the posters than people who saw similarly
designed posters prompting them to “make friends†or “be in a group.†Lead scientist and psychology professor Dolores AlbarracÃÂn reports that study participants ate
one-third more when exposed to the exercise ads, and those exposed to
subliminal words about activity during a computer task ate about 20
percent more than those exposed to neutral words.
Read more from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Love the poster. Where can I get one?
You have got to be kidding me!?!?!?!