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Appetite: The Psychology of Eating and Drinking

  • PSY352
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The need to eat and drink is essential to the survival of all animals. This unit examines the psychology of these activities, with a primarily human slant. In particular, the unit covers the anatomy and physiology of the whole ingestive system; what starts and stops eating; why we like and prefer some foods over others; and the psychobiology of dieting, starvation, obesity, and anorexia/bulimia. The unit adopts a broad perspective, so that the impact of human food choice on health, the economy and the environment, are constantly kept in focus. -- Course Website

Instructor: Associate Professor Dick Stevenson

Prerequisites: (PSY222 or PSY248) and PSY236 



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