Cognitive explanations of obesity
This scene from Supersize Me looks at how television plays a role in a child's attitude toward food. Human beings are cognitive misers. Baumeister et al (1998) argued that making decisions actually uses energy that we would rather not use. As human beings, we tend to apply the following mantra to decision-making: I don't know, I don't care and I don't have time. In order to eat healthy food and thereby maintain a...