Is Comfort Food Really Good for the Soul? A Replication of Troisi and Gabriel’s (2011) Study 2

We report the results of three high-powered replications of Troisi and Gabriel’s (2011) idea that writing about comfort food reduces feelings of loneliness amongst securely attached individuals after a belongingness threat. We conducted our studies amongst a large group of participants (Total N = 64...

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Main Authors: Lay See eOng, Hans eIJzerman, Angela eLeung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00314/full