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When it comes to Instagramming(图片分享)your dinner, I say live and let live, you know? Maybe your salad was particularly aesthetica

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问题     When it comes to Instagramming(图片分享)your dinner, I say live and let live, you know? Maybe your salad was particularly aesthetically pleasing that night, and I, too, have wiled away many an hour clicking "random" on Smitten Kitchen and salivating(流口水). But I assume if you’re making the effort to arrange your food artfully and preserve its memory in a digital archive, you must... like food. And want it to taste good. A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology suggests that spending time focusing on images of food makes the food itself less satisfying.
    The researchers hypothesized that imagining enjoying something might lead to satiation—the feeling that makes the second piece of cake taste not-quite-as-good as the first. To test this, they had undergraduates participate in two experiments that they were told were separate—one in which they rated how appetizing different photos of food looked, and one in which they ate some peanuts and rated how much they enjoyed them.
    A separate group of people did the same experiment again, but in the photo-rating portion, some were asked to rate how appetizing the food was or to choose a preference between two foods, and some were asked to rate the brightness of the photo itself.
    The more photos of food people looked at, the less they enjoyed the peanuts—if they were looking at photos of salty food. People who knew every inch of the images of sweets enjoyed the peanuts more, suggesting that imagination causes satiation only if you’re imagining a similar food. In the second experiment, participants who focused on the brightness of the photos were able to enjoy the peanuts more than those who were thinking about the deliciousness of foods while they looked at the images.
    What may be the implications of the study? You’ll probably enjoy your food more if you don’t take a picture of it, or scroll through images of burritos at work and then eat one when you get home. This study may also have potential implications for advertisers, who may unknowingly be giving away satiation for free when they dangle(垂悬)fascinating images of chicken wings or whatever in front of us all day long. But luckily the study provides a loophole for determined Instagrammers: Try not to think about the food’s taste while you take a photo—just focus on your composition.
What is the best title for this passage?
选项 A、The Effects of Food Pictures
B、Food Pictures Stimulate Your Appetite
C、Food Instagrammers Pose Us a Threat
D、Imagining Enjoying Food Influences Your Appetite
答案D
解析 综合推断题。文章首段在引入主题词Instagramming后，通过举例引申出本文的主题：关注网上食物的照片会使得人们对食物本身的满意程度下降。究其原因，作者介绍了一个研究的结论：想象对食物的享受可能会使人产生饱足感，从而影响人们的食欲。最后一段引申出这一研究结果的意义。因此，D)“想象对食物的享受影响食欲”符合文意，故为答案。A)“食物照片的影响”范围太广，故排除；B)“食物图片刺激食欲”较片面，偏离文章主题，故排除；C)“食物拍客给我们造成了威胁”夸大了食物图片对人们生活的影响，故排除。
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