The effect of spicy food on bonding and bias

• Main Author: Lim, Dionis Si Ying
• Other Authors: Cheon, Bobby Kyungbeom
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70597
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Eating spicy food is typically an experience of pain. Research has shown that shared experiences of pain can promote bonding and cooperation. Humans are inherently social and have a need to affiliate, and fulfil this social need by prioritizing affiliation and the welfare of one’s ingroup. Therefore...