Search Options
close
Search the following clips:
All Clips
Everyone's Clips
My Guides
Sign Up
Install
Learn More
Login
TV Crime Makes You Fat(?)
kmcolo
follow
2
6-26-2008 11:37 AM
173 views
tags:
television
,
psychology
,
crime
,
fear
,
consumption
1 Comment
|
Add a Comment
6-27-2008
8:18 AM
righthand
Yes/
Login
to Comment. Not a member yet?
Sign up
Related Clips
Only 8% of Guantánamo detainees alleged to...
Patient dies after being left in chair 22 ...
Georgian Villagers Recount Tales Of Marauders
Death in the Waiting Room
McCain selects running-mate
Macaroni and Merlot
Comedy show plays on Danes' fears of Islam...
More clips from
kmcolo
International law should govern release of...
Planetary science: The early Moon was rich...
Social diversity promotes the emergence of...
Today's Top Clips
Dolphins walk on water in the wild
You Are Never Too Old Or Frail In China
Meet the boy who won't stop growing
5 Insanely Small And Inhabited Private Islands
Dogs have a sense of right and wrong
Hacker blows Chinese coverup of gymnist's age
Researchers find that the 40 and older swimmer of today is faster than the 40-of yesterday
McCain's Mansions
Can you trust your mind?
Limbaugh: nobody would "say no to a black guy"
visit the
Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from
June 26, 2008
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1a41c96f-b86c-437f-9e69-7460ef0a8cfd/F7435964-6AC9-4EFF-9F82-8BC140B7F541/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/25/morbid.thoughts.whet.appetite" href="http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/25/morbid.thoughts.whet.appetite" style="font-size: 11px;">esciencenews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/25/morbid.thoughts.whet.appetite">Can watching TV news or crime shows trigger overeating? According to new research in the <I>Journal of Consumer Research,</I> people who are thinking about their own deaths want to consume more.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/25/morbid.thoughts.whet.appetite"><P>"People want to consumer more of all kinds of foods, both healthy and unhealthy, when thinking about the idea that they will die some day," write the authors. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/25/morbid.thoughts.whet.appetite"><P>The study also revealed that placing a mirror in front of the participants reduced the desire to over-consume. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/25/morbid.thoughts.whet.appetite"><P>"Consumers, especially those with a lower self-esteem, might be more susceptible to over-consumption when faced with images of death during the news or their favorite crime-scene investigation shows," the authors conclude.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F7435964-6AC9-4EFF-9F82-8BC140B7F541/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
Clipmarks
Home
New Clips
Top Clips
Dashboard
Popular Topics
News
Life
Science
Technology
Entertainment
Get Started
Sign Up
Install Clipping Tool
How Clipping Works
Clip-to-Blog™
ClipSearch
Tools and Resources
FAQ
ClipWeek
Top Clippers
Top Tags
Site Map
About Clipmarks
About Us
Contact
Blog
Copyright
Privacy
EULA
OK
