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 theJournal of Consumer Psychologysuggests that spending time focusing on images of food makes the food itself less satisfying.
最近出版在消费者心理日报的一篇研究表明：关注食物照片食花费时间,会使得我们对食物的满意程度下降。
Methodology: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.
为了检验这一理论，相关组织者让大学生参加了两项实验。他们把大学生分成两组，一组通过看不同食物的照片来比哪个好吃，而另外一组他们吃一些花生然后再比较他们更喜欢哪种。
Results: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 perused 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.
结果：食物的图片看到越多，他们越不喜欢吃花生――如果他们一直看着咸味食物的照片。那些仔细看甜食图片的人会更想吃花生，这表明了只要你想象类似的食物时，想象力会使你感到更满足。在第二个实验里，当看那些照片的时候，关注了照片的亮度的那些参与者会比一直只靠想象食物的人要更喜欢吃花生。
The study, "Satiation from sensory simulation: Evaluating foods decreases enjoyment of similar foods, " appeared in theJournal of Consumer Psychology.
这个研究给那些铁杆照片分享的粉丝提供了一个漏洞：尽量不要在你拍照的时候想这个食物的味道――只要关注你的作品就行了。同时“来自感觉模仿的满足感：评估食物降低了对类似食物的享受感，”这句话出现在《消费心理》上。
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