Bottomless Soup Bowl
This is especially funny because I would SO be that person who ate the quart of soup:
Dr. Wansink is particularly proud of his bottomless soup bowl, which he and some undergraduates devised with insulated tubing, plastic dinnerware and a pot of hot tomato soup rigged to keep the bowl about half full. The idea was to test which would make people stop eating: visual cues, or a feeling of fullness.People using normal soup bowls ate about nine ounces. The typical bottomless soup bowl diner ate 15 ounces. Some of those ate more than a quart, and didn’t stop until the 20-minute experiment was over. When asked to estimate how many calories they had consumed, both groups thought they had eaten about the same amount, and 113 fewer calories on average than they actually had.
Also, it's a good (and pretty funny) article. I read once (in one of those great "life advice for girls who are growing up" type books - man, I internalized everything that book said.) that you only really taste the first three Oreos that you eat - after that, you're really just snacking on autopilot and ought to switch to something healthier. I remember this every so often... but usually only after I've been shoveling long past necessary. Like tonight. So did not need that last piece of pizza. So cannot button pants.