%0 Journal Article
%T Lunching for Relaxation or Cognitive Control? After-Effects of Social
and Solitary Meals
%A Annekathrin Schacht
%A Birgit Stš¹rmer
%A Guang Ouyang
%A Manuel Martšªn-Loeches
%A Marina Palazova
%A Philip Rausch
%A Werner Sommer
%J Archive of "Advances in Cognitive Psychology".
%D 2018
%R 10.5709/acp-0234-3
%X Meals, especially when taken in company, may affect the diner¡¯s mood. In line with findings that mood may alter cognitive control, a previous study by the authors found that after solitary meals, the Simon effect was diminished as compared to a premeal condition, whereas a social meal did not reduce the Simon effect. Here, we investigated whether this finding generalizes across different demands in cognitive control and, therefore, applied a flanker task. Obtained questionnaire data indicated differential effects in mood and relaxation of a social as compared to a solitary meal. Replicating our previous findings, the flanker compatibility effect decreased after a solitary meal but increased after a social meal. The present results support our previous findings with new evidence that a meal taken in a social context attenuates subsequent cognitive control processes compared with a solitary meal
%K meal
%K positive mood
%K cognitive control
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6104683/