People typically eat more from large portions of food than from small portions. An explanation that has often been given for this so-called portion size effect is that the portion size acts as a social norm and as such communicates how much is appropriate to eat. In this paper, we tested this explanation by examining whether manipulating the relevance of the portion size as a social norm change...

OBJECTIVE It is often believed that people overeat the foods they like. We investigated whether environmental cues such as packaging and container size are so powerful that they can increase our intake of foods that are less palatable. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS In a 2 x 2 between-subjects design, 158 moviegoers in Philadelphia (57.6% male; 28.7 years) were randomly given a medium (120...

APPENDIX A: A portion of a sample transcript This transcript depicts the movements of the face, body and eyes ass well as the verbal behavior of two laboratory subjects carrying out the letter sequence task. Thee sequences are the same as those shown in Figure 1. In transcribing we were concerned with capturingg synchrony and sequence of events occurring in multiple channels. The passage of tim...

This paper reviews and generalizes a method to generate RSAmoduli with a predetermined portion. The potential advantages of the resultingmethods are discussed: both the storage and the computational requirements ofthe RSA cryptosystem can be considerably reduced. The constructions are as ef-ficient as generation of regular RSA moduli, and the resulting moduli do notseem to o...