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Home / Health News / Your food reviews can tell a lot about who you are as a person!

Your food reviews can tell a lot about who you are as a person!

Are you one of those foodies who loves to post reviews online on websites like Zomato and Burrp? Studies have now shown that your review may reveal more than the food you love. Or hate.

By: Agencies   | | Updated: April 14, 2014 11:52 am
Tags: Food  Healthy food  Healthy food in restaurants  In the news  

foodAre you one of those foodies who loves to post reviews online on websites like Zomato and Burrp? Studies have now shown that your review may reveal more than the food you love. Or hate. Also Read - Have blackcurrants daily to control your diabetes: A few interesting ways of adding it to your diet

Researchers from Stanford University used a software to study almost 900,000 reviews of 6,548 restaurants – from fast food to luxury restaurants – on Yelp.Com. ‘Our goal was to examine online reviews not for what they tell us about restaurants, but rather for what they tell us about people, about the psychology of the person who wrote the review,’ Dan Jurafsky, a Stanford professor of linguistics and one of the co-authors, said.  Also Read - Black raisins: Just a handful every day will keep the doctor away this winter



‘We studied the meanings that are hidden in the way people use words and connotations,’ Jurafs Also Read - Can eating applesauce protect against chronic disease?

ky said.  The reviews covered restaurants in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The researchers found positive reviews of expensive restaurants tended to use metaphors of sex and sensual pleasure. Also, the words used in those reviews were longer and fancier.  (Read: 10 reasons junk food is bad for your health)

Positive reviews of cheap restaurants and foods often employed metaphors of drugs or addiction. Negative reviews were frequently associated with the language of personal trauma and poor customer service: ‘We waited 10 min before we even got her attention to order.’ Women were more likely than men to use drug metaphors to describe their attitudes toward food.  (Read: Why is organic food better for your health?)

The foods most likely to be described using drug metaphors were pizza, burgers, sweets and sushi. For Jurafsky, the most surprising finding was how strongly the language of negative Yelp reviews resembled the language of people who have been traumatised by tragedies or the deaths of loved ones.  ‘Bad reviews seem to be caused by bad customer service rather than just bad food or atmosphere. The bottom line is that it’s all about the personal interactions. When people are rude or mean to you, it goes straight to your sense of self,’ he said. (Read: 7 tasty food items that are great for your health and weight loss)

The negative reviews function as a means of coping with service-related trauma, according to the study. The study was published the journal First Monday.

Source: PTI

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Published : April 14, 2014 10:32 am | Updated:April 14, 2014 11:52 am
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