Universal eating monitor
Independent t-tests were used to analyse the following measures
of pasta and cookie consumption by condition (unaware vs.
aware): total amount eaten; time spent eating; pause between
mouthfuls and eating rate. For the pasta lunch, there was no significant
effect of awareness on any of the UEM measures (all p < 0.05;
see Table 3). For the cookie snack, there was a main effect of awareness
for eating rate as participants in the aware condition ate cookies
at a slower rate than those in the unaware condition (10.2 vs. 13.4 g/
min; t (37) = 2.39, p < 0.05; Table 3). There was no effect of awareness
on any other measures of cookie consumption (all p > 0.05 – Table 3).
However, it is interesting to note that there is a trend towards an
increase in pause between mouthfuls of cookies for the aware condition
(compared to unaware), which is likely to be responsible for
the significant decrease in cookie eating rate in the aware condition