Psychology you should know: Save the best for last or enjoy it while you can?
How the order of what you eat can say a little and a lot about who you are
Imagine having dinner at your favorite sushi bar. You get your sushi plate with the pieces you love as well as a few you don’t quite mind eating. Which do you eat first?
There might be roughly two types of people in this world: the hedonists and the savorists.
If you eat your favorite one first, you might be called a “hedonist”. Hedonists indulge in opportunities to enjoy the objects and experiences while they can.
If you’d rather save your favorite one for last, you might be a “savorist”. You enjoy looking forward to the climax of the meal.
So who are these people and how do they differ? A group of researchers in Korea ran an experiment to see who eats what first and how people fall into these two cateogories.
The researchers invited students to participate in a sushi-eating experiment. The students selected 7 pieces of sushi from a larger plate and wrote how much they preferred each one. Researchers then secretly recorded the order in which the sushi were consumed by the participants.
