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Presentation 2015-05-19 13:00
It will be more delicious -- looking in a mirror can make popcorn taste better --
Ryuzaburo Nakata (Nagoya Univ.), Namiko Kubo-Kawai (Aichi Shukutoku Univ.), Nobuyuki Kawai (Nagoya Univ.) HCS2015-5 HIP2015-5
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) As a good example demonstrating an influence of social factors in tasting foods, eating together can change tastes of foods better. Although it has been established that a good mood enhanced by a companion leads this effect, other factors appear to be largely unexplored. Here, we first report that looking in a mirror can make popcorn taste better. Ratings of the tastes of popcorn were shown higher if participants ate popcorn as looking in the mirror, supposed to eat together with another self, compared to eating popcorn alone. No significant changes on the mood states were shown between the beginning and the end of sessions. Therefore, these results suggest that some factors, not only moods, could improve taste when eating together.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Taste / Eating together / Mood / Mirror / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 115, no. 35, HCS2015-5, pp. 45-48, May 2015.
Paper # HCS2015-5 
Date of Issue 2015-05-12 (HCS, HIP) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee HCS HIP HI-SIGCOASTER  
Conference Date 2015-05-19 - 2015-05-20 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Okinawa Industry Support Center 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Communication Enhancing, Human Communications, and Human Information Processing 
Paper Information
Registration To HCS 
Conference Code 2015-05-HCS-HIP-SIGCE 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) It will be more delicious 
Sub Title (in English) looking in a mirror can make popcorn taste better 
Keyword(1) Taste  
Keyword(2) Eating together  
Keyword(3) Mood  
Keyword(4) Mirror  
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1st Author's Name Ryuzaburo Nakata  
1st Author's Affiliation Nagoya University (Nagoya Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Namiko Kubo-Kawai  
2nd Author's Affiliation Aichi Shukutoku University (Aichi Shukutoku Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Nobuyuki Kawai  
3rd Author's Affiliation Nagoya University (Nagoya Univ.)
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Date Time 2015-05-19 13:00:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for HCS 
Paper # HCS2015-5, HIP2015-5 
Volume (vol) vol.115 
Number (no) no.35(HCS), no.36(HIP) 
Page pp.45-48 
#Pages 4 
Date of Issue 2015-05-12 (HCS, HIP) 

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