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Social distance regulation for control of COVID-19 may foster the global obesity pandemic: Social distancing increases the desire for food
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2020
unpublished
Social distance regulations have been suggested as one of the best ways to control and prevent the spread of coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19). Social connection and food are intertwined because both have played critical evolutionary roles in human survival. We tested whether the substitutability hypothesis in human motivation applies here in that cues signaling scarcity in one domain (e.g., social connection) might enhance the desire to acquire resources in another domain (e.g., food). In a
doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-80438/v1
fatcat:dyivfuswj5hplloscgvzb5xgdi