Research paper
Herman CP, Roth DA, Polivy J. Effects of the presence of others on food intake: A normative interpretation. Psychological Bulletin. 2003;129(6):873-886. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.129.6.873
Note: Some companions reference this as "Handbook of Eating Disorders, 2005" — Herman and Polivy published a related chapter in that handbook, but this library's primary source is the 2003 Psychological Bulletin review. The directory name `cso04-herman-2005` reflects the original cataloging.
Why we cite it
The foundational normative framework for understanding social influence on eating. While earlier research documented that people eat more in groups (social facilitation) and match companions' intake (modeling), these findings appeared to contradict the observation that people eat less when being watched (impression management). Herman, Roth, and Polivy's key insight was that all three effects stem from the same mechanism: in the absence of reliable internal satiety signals, people reference socially derived norms — particularly others' behavior — to decide when to stop eating. This normative model, published in *Psychological Bulletin* (one of psychology's most prestigious review outlets), became the standard theoretical framework that later work (including Cruwys et al. 2015 {{cso03}}) built upon.
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.6.873 · PubMed 14599286 · Publisher