UPI reports on a Cornell study about the “biting vs. chewing” habits of kids, which discovered that youngsters who “eat chicken on the bone” are more likely to be belligerent:
The study, which was published in Eating Behaviors, found that children were “twice as likely to disobey adults and twice as aggressive toward other kids” when eating food they had to hold and bite.
Researchers found that children were more docile when eating cut-up pieces of food, results which would seem to indicate that there is a connection between having to use teeth to eat and aggressive behavior.
One dissenter, Dr. Brian Russell, says that people have been eating food off bones for millennia and doubts that aggressiveness has increased as a result.
Elsewhere, University Herald notes that researchers at California State University-Long Beach, the University of Kent, and the University of Missouri have determined that merely seeing alcohol-related terms can increase aggressive behavior:
The first experiment tested whether priming study participants with alcohol-related terms would enhance their aggressive responding following an ambiguous provocation, but not following obvious provocation or no provocation at all. Participants were instructed to write a brief essay on a controversial topic, which they were told would be evaluated by another (actually non-existent) participant.
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