Social Norms

Study finds diners overestimate how awkward it is to start eating before others are served

2026년 01월 14일 AI에 의해 보고됨 AI에 의해 생성된 이미지 사실 확인됨

Researchers report that people feel more uncomfortable starting to eat when their meal arrives first than they expect their dining companions would. The self–other gap persisted across multiple experiments and was only modestly reduced by perspective-taking prompts or by a companion explicitly encouraging them to begin.