Women Copy Each Others' Eating Patterns

Copycat Calorie crimes.

When two women are eating together, one is more likely to put food in her mouth when the other one is doing so too - while one's food-filled fork is coming towards her mouth, the other one is more likely to do the same within five seconds, researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, reported in PLoS One (The Public Library of Science 1). Behavioral mimicry, the authors suggest, occurs unwittingly during a meal.

May not be so bad if Calorie overconsumers then go to the bathroom together and co-purge.