The Effect of Social Exclusion on Eating Healthy

The idea is that being socially excluded is a huge threat to people's self-esteem, their sense of self-worth. We had them do a values affirmation task and then we had everybody do a taste test of some grocery store little cookies. People who had been excluded ate as many as eight of these cookies. The idea was that when people feel threatened, they will forget about their goal to eat healthy.