Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Multitasking Keeps You Snacking

Episode Show Notes:

When It Comes to the Black Death, the Rats May Have Been Framed by Ashley Hamer

• History.com Editors. (2010, September 17). Black Death. HISTORY. https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/black-death
• Gill, V. (2018, January 15). Black Death “spread by humans not rats.” BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42690577
• Dean, K. R., Krauer, F., Walløe, L., Lingjærde, O. C., Bramanti, B., Stenseth, N. C., & Schmid, B. V. (2018). Human ectoparasites and the spread of plague in Europe during the Second Pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(6), 1304–1309. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715640115

Multitasking might make you keep snacking even when you're full by Kelsey Donk

• Ford, A. (2020) TV-watching snackers beware: you won’t notice you’re full if your attention is elsewhere. University of Sussex. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/research?id=52535
• Morris, J., Vi, C. T., Obrist, M., Forster, S., & Yeomans, M. R. (2020). Ingested but not perceived: Response to satiety cues disrupted by perceptual load. Appetite, 104813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104813

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