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How the participants judged the importance of walking or cycling short distances was dependent on who they listened to the interview with, and how that person reacted. When sat with someone they thought was another student, and who shared their environmental values, the participants reiterated the importance of cycling. An outsider who commented on the hypocrisy of the interviewee elicited the strongest environmental feelings in the participants.
By defending the interviewee from criticism, they reinforced their own view that cycling was important.
This is perhaps because they felt the interviewee might normally be more environmentally responsible. Conversely, if the outsider stayed quiet, the participants judged the importance of cycling the lowest.
So, how an outsider judges our peers has a big impact on whether we back them up or not. In the face of criticism by a stranger, we might come to the aid of our peers.
But if left to form our own opinions, we interpret the hypocritical behaviour as a sign that we can relax our own views. This is called vicarious dissonance. This study was inspired by several pieces of work in Australia on vicarious dissonance around sun protection use. View image of Credit: Alamy. How we talk about our health choices with friends can also have a significant impact on our decisions, both positively and negatively. This is supported by a meta-analysis of 28 studies totalling , participants.
Their presence can decide whether we act on that health information or ignore it. Scholz asked college students in the US if they had talked to anyone about a recent experience involving alcohol, and whether those conversations were positive or negative. If they had talked positively about alcohol consumption they were more likely to drink more the next day, and vice versa.
These patterns are highly influenced, though, by the social circumstances that we find ourselves in. When we make decisions we are constantly reassessing the value we might get from each choice — a process called value maximisation. Our decision to take the stairs rather than a lift is dependent on how much we ate at lunch, if we have already been for our daily run and whether we walked into the building with our triathlete colleague. No effect of a conversation with friends can ever be viewed in isolation. And that is why our willpower fluctuates.
The importance of certain types of information changes through the day. Our choices are influenced by who we are with when we are asked the question, how those people reacted, any conversations we might have had beforehand and our fundamental understanding of what is normal for that group of friends. We do this all the time, and we might not realise the impact it has. They might say it was the taste or the price or hunger levels rather than the people around them.
The phenomenon was first described based on an analysis of food diaries by John de Castro in the s. These detailed diaries listed what people ate , but also where, when and who with. He was then able to control for the effects of celebratory meals, whether alcohol was consumed, if the meal took place at the weekend and any other factors that might have influenced the amount of food eaten. These effects have since been repeated in laboratories.
Higgs asked students to eat lunch either with a friend or in isolation in a lab. It appears to happen even when you are eating with one other friend in a very controlled environment. But, this effect only occurs with people that you know well. The presence of another person clouds our ability to pick up on cues from our bodies that we are satisfied.
Higgs suggests that the presence of another person clouds our ability to pick up on cues from our bodies that we are satisfied. The normal process of feeling full is disrupted by feeling stimulated by our friends.
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