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Podcast: QAA Podcast
Episode: Trickle Down Episode 18: Viral Science (Sample)
Description: Brian Wansink was the Head of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University. While there, he did exciting research that suggested eating healthier and encouraging others to eat healthier was as simple as providing subtle hints and nudges towards the preferred behavior.
He’s perhaps most famous for the claim that if you take a larger plate to the buffet, you’ll eat more than if you were to take a small plate.
For a long time he was easily the world’s most prominent voice on food psychology. He published bestselling books. He was constantly interviewed by national media...