Gastrodiplomacy: Assessing the role of food in decision-making. Issue 1 (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Spence, Charles
• Is Part Of: Flavour. Volume 5:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 16
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: Gastrodiplomacy -- Decision-making -- Impression formation -- Cognition -- Free lunch; Flavor -- Periodicals; Sensory evaluation -- Periodicals; Chemical senses -- Periodicals; Chemoreceptor Cells -- Periodicals; Receptors, Sensory -- Periodicals; 664.072
• DOI: 10.1186/s13411-016-0050-8
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2044-7248

Abstract

Abstract This review addresses a number of questions around the relation between food and decision-making/social behaviour, including the following: Can food be used as a tool of political persuasion? What role, if any, does the food we eat have over the decisions we reach? Do we bond with those with whom we happen to share a meal? And is it ever ethical to accept a free lunch? Can the provision of food be used to enhance creativity/productivity? Ultimately, the case is made that what we eat plays a far more important role in cognition, decision-making, and impression formation than most people realize.