London - Boredom really does make us eat more — that’s the suggestion from a study at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
Researchers carried out two experiments on 60 volunteers split into two groups — one watching a documentary, the other watching a 85-second clip from the documentary repeated in a loop for an hour.
In the first experiment, participants were given free access to chocolate, while in the second they were given a device to administer brief electric shocks to themselves.
Results published in the journal Appetite show those watching the boring repeated clip not only ate more chocolate, but gave themselves electric shocks, too — possibly to break the monotony, said the researchers.
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