Rachel Herz
Autor(a) de The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell
About the Author
Rachel Herz is a, neuroscientist specializing in perception and emotion. She teaches at Brown University and Boston College, and is a professional consultant. The author of The Scent of Desire and That's Disgusting, she lives in Rhode Island.
Image credit: Rachel Herz, author of the book “Scent of Desire, uses tongs to handle a smelly pair of sneakers while judging the annual Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest in Montpelier, Vt. Ben Russell, 15, of Alaska, beat seven other contestants to claim the title of rottenest sneakers in the USA.
Obras de Rachel Herz
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Herz, Rachel
- Nome de batismo
- Rachel Sarah Herz
- Data de nascimento
- 1963
- Sexo
- female
- Pequena biografia
- Rachel Herz, PhD has been conducting research on olfaction, emotion and cognition since 1990. She has published over 65 original research papers, co-edited college textbooks and received a number of grants and prestigious awards.
Since 2000 she has been on the faculty at Brown University. Dr. Herz’s research has shown how odor-evoked memory is emotionally unique compared to other kinds of memory experiences, how emotional associations can change odor perception, and how odors can be conditioned to emotions and subsequently influence motivated behavior. Her work also deals with how language can affect odor perception and her laboratory has empirically demonstrated the first instance of olfactory illusions created by words alone. A third area of interest concerns the role of body-odor and fragrance in heterosexual attraction. Her most recent research involves investigating various facets of the emotion of disgust.
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The book covers a lot of information on the psychology of eating. The book contains conclusions from many limited studies. The book is interesting but not highly valuable.
Information packed account for the general reader on the latest in the neuroscience of the senses and food consumption.The author is able to reference numerous academic studies in an engaging and accessible manner. Especially of interest was the examination of the relation between ethical foods and the feeling of moral superiority. Great read for anyone that eats.
The term ‘page turner’ is often used to describe a thriller; but in this case, I think that the term adequately describes “Why You Eat What You Eat”. Every page contained a nugget of information gathered from various universities’ social experiments. Food taste, texture, and smell are the determinants that come to mind when deciding what food to eat. But not as clear is the influence that experience, psychology, culture, and memory have on our food eating decisions. These and other proffered factors are greater food eating determinants than the first three primary factors mentioned. Indeed, these other factors program our reaction to the primary determinants. So, a page-turner? Yes! Every page read passed on new knowledge about eating decision-making.
In addition to drivers that shape our eating desires, the author, Doctor Rachel Herz, remarks on the influences that turn us off to eating. This isn’t a diet book, but finding ways to take advantage of eating turnoff factors will help dieters resist acting on their food cravings. These turn off drivers can be used to replace self-forbidden eating delicacies with the propulsion to eat healthier and less. My only criticism of this book is that the author did not spend more time addressing this subject.
It was interesting to note how important our early childhood was to shaping our approach to eating. Taste preferences begin in the womb base on our mother’s diet during pregnancy and continue developing based on the variety of foods offered us during infancy and toddlerhood. Scientific evidence indicates that early childhood preferences, and the experiences enjoyed during that period, are easily recalled later in life with just the odor of an early childhood favored food. I certainly can relate to this based on my experience with certain ‘comfort’ foods and others may have had similar experiences.
The food knowledge this book provided helped me understand my eating preferences. It also provided me with food eating trivia to share at family gatherings. Shared in a way to avoid singling people out or causing embarrassment, this shared knowledge helped share my new-found knowledge on ‘why we eat what we eat’.
Understanding food eating motivators is the primary benefit received from reading this book. I am now more aware of what drives me to eat certain foods and more attuned to my feeling of fullness. This new awareness has helped me deal with my overeating tendencies.… (mais)
In addition to drivers that shape our eating desires, the author, Doctor Rachel Herz, remarks on the influences that turn us off to eating. This isn’t a diet book, but finding ways to take advantage of eating turnoff factors will help dieters resist acting on their food cravings. These turn off drivers can be used to replace self-forbidden eating delicacies with the propulsion to eat healthier and less. My only criticism of this book is that the author did not spend more time addressing this subject.
It was interesting to note how important our early childhood was to shaping our approach to eating. Taste preferences begin in the womb base on our mother’s diet during pregnancy and continue developing based on the variety of foods offered us during infancy and toddlerhood. Scientific evidence indicates that early childhood preferences, and the experiences enjoyed during that period, are easily recalled later in life with just the odor of an early childhood favored food. I certainly can relate to this based on my experience with certain ‘comfort’ foods and others may have had similar experiences.
The food knowledge this book provided helped me understand my eating preferences. It also provided me with food eating trivia to share at family gatherings. Shared in a way to avoid singling people out or causing embarrassment, this shared knowledge helped share my new-found knowledge on ‘why we eat what we eat’.
Understanding food eating motivators is the primary benefit received from reading this book. I am now more aware of what drives me to eat certain foods and more attuned to my feeling of fullness. This new awareness has helped me deal with my overeating tendencies.… (mais)
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- Obras
- 4
- Membros
- 326
- Popularidade
- #72,687
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 11
- ISBNs
- 14
- Idiomas
- 3
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I have long felt that disgust is an emotion that we can control. We can decide whether or not to be disgusted by something. In this book, Herz makes this point repeatedly, and notes that it is actually a luxury, a feeling the entitled among us may choose. People of little privilege don't have the option of feeling disgusted by insects, by strange foods, by certain smells, for example. Sometimes we just have to live with some things and it is better to make peace with the fact.
I have found this subject interesting for a long time, although this is the first time I have done any real reading on it. A few years ago I read a book by a woman who was thrown in prison for her political beliefs, and who was faced with cockroaches the first night. She simply got used to them. Obviously, no other course of action would be helpful in that situation. I admit that I tend to hold in low esteem those who cringe and make faces when they see a bug. I am not faultless in this regard, as I will jump when a wild mouse runs into a room or when a spider lands on me . I recognize, though, that this is on me. My choice.
Herz's book explores a number of aspects to disgust, including the type of disgust some feel for persons who do not adhere to their own concept of a moral code. For example, those who find homosexuality "disgusting". She traces this to brain behavior, though, and finds that this type disgust is not the same as that we experience when we encounter a pile of poop.
Her exploration delves into horror movies, germs, people, love and lust, and tries to find evolutionary reasons for our feelings as well as reasons some people love horror on the screen and others can't abide it, for example.
It is an engaging book, written clearly and simply and with some humor. I wasn't as entranced by her humor as others have been but can't fault her for trying.… (mais)