Sweets Sweeten Your Mood (some research says)

[3113]

And, apparently, a bitter taste can sour it From here:

A growing body of evidence is making clear the links between what we taste and how we feel: Repulsion is repulsion, whether caused by a shameful act or a rotten egg. "Your brain can't tell the difference between something that tastes bad and something that makes you feel morally violated," says Kendall Eskine, a cognitive psychologist at Loyola University in New Orleans.

For two weeks in the spring of 2009, North Dakota State University shut down so that students could help place millions of sandbags along the Red River to prevent disastrous flooding during an especially wet season. Once the danger had subsided, psychologists saw a research opportunity: They asked more than 100 students how likely they were to help take down the sandbags — a less dire and purely voluntary act.

Those who liked sweet foods most, the researchers reported last year in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, were most likely to offer help, not just with the sandbags but also with an unrelated study for an English professor.

The findings suggest a link between having a sweet tooth and a sweet disposition — a link that the study documented in other ways too. People rated themselves as more agreeable and they were more generous with their time, for example, after eating a small piece of sweet chocolate than after eating a sour candy or a bland cracker. They also rated pictures of random faces more highly if captions explained that those people liked sweet foods.

I see a plot bunny in this. A woman (or man's) sweet (or not sweet?) flavor changes the person going down on them....

 

[Handley_Page]

This was my first thought.

 

[damppanties]

I see a plot bunny in this. A woman (or man's) sweet (or not sweet?) flavor changes the person going down on them....

This has already been proven. What you eat changes the taste of your juices.

As to the actual article, interesting. Might have to consider the biological/chemical changes that occur inside our bodies as a result of the foods we eat. Explains why we eat chocolate when we're depressed too.

 

[rjordan]

This has already been proven. What you eat changes the taste of your juices.

No, I think 3113's idea was more interesting than that. I think he was suggesting a story where the sweetness of a person's juices changes the mood of the person eating them.

 

[damppanties]

No, I think 3113's idea was more interesting than that. I think he was suggesting a story where the sweetness of a person's juices changes the mood of the person eating them.

Ah yes, indeed. I stand corrected.