Do Social Norms and Self-Disgust Impact College Student Eating Behaviors?

Poster Session VI

Saturday May 24, 2025 (10:30 - 11:30 ET)
Keyword: Decision Making

Abstract: This research assessed how perceptions of norms around problematic eating behaviors impact one's own problematic eating behaviors. Overall, perceptions of norms around eating behaviors predicted participants eating behaviors. The more a participant thought fellow students had problematic eating behaviors, the more the participant engaged in problematic eating behaviors.