Critical Analysis of Wansink’s (2007) an experimental research article
Critical Analysis
Noe Granado
UTB-TSC
EDCI 6300-80
Zhidong Zhang Ph. D.
April 6, 2011
The following experimental research articleanalysis creates a dynamic thought about how people, at bar and grill restaurants, can monitor their eating habits. Brian Wansink and Collin R. Payne (Cornell University) provide the reader with further details about the experiment.
As a professor in the fields of marketing and nutritional science, Brian Wansink is best known for his work on food psychology and behavior (Cornell Unitversity). Wansink and Payne investigate whether people use cues when being bussed. They demonstrate a great scenario, in which, they use a football game at a bar and grill restaurant. Distracting environments is a great way of testing to see if people can control their satiation when eating a meal. This study can influence the readers point of view, especially, if the reading had never thought about paying attention to the cues, when being bussed with distraction during a football game at a bar and grill restaurant.
The authors makes it very clear that in order to have a strong case, he must provide the people with food which could leave a visual reminder of what they have consumed (such as bones from meat, seeds or pits from fruit, or wrappers from candy). Once the reader has realized this cue, this leads us to believe that our eating habits can be controlled by the person who we are being bussed by. This article is meaningful in many situations. The author realizes that many people gain weight according by the condition, in which we are being bussed. It’s true, because if a bar and grill restaurant wants you to consume more food, then they will remove any food you have at your table, as you finish eating. It is clear that, in general, if bones, seeds, or wrappers are visual then we will stop consuming. In the other hand, if the bones, seeds or wrappers are removed, as we consume, we fail to realize the amount of food we have eaten.
The article attacks weight, without insulting anyone, by providing the fact that, if we pay attention at busser’s cues, then we can control our eating habits. The reader can experiment, himself, after reading the article. As the reader attend such events at a bar and grill restaurant, he/she could pay attention to the busser cues, and realize how much he/she consumed. Even though the result was based on the age of 24yr olds, this article relates to any age group. I’m 36yrs, and this article opens my eyes. It made me realized that this situation has happened to me. Now, it is understood that when my family visits a restaurant, we should pay attention to the cues of the busser, to control our eating habits, and possibly our weight.
Finally, the author has results which encourages the reader to plan his/her eating habits, by paying attention to the busser’s cues. No matter what the explanation, this article clearly states that that the bussers cues are dependent in how much we consume, by stating the following comment, “Regardless of the explanation, these results show that environmental cues of how much has been eaten effectively leads to reduced intake in a distracting social situation such as this (Wansink and Payne)”. A final thought about this article: even an alcoholic can be controlled at a bar and grill restaurant, by leaving empty bottles on the table/bar where the customer is being served (Wansink and Payne). He/she will realize that he/she has consumed too much. The experiment of this article will make a difference to our community/world.