
Indulging in guilty pleasures due to stress may not be as satisfying as the same treat taken just for pleasure without stress, found a new study.
Lead author Eva Pool, MS, a doctoral student at the University of Geneva said that most people experience stress that increases craving for rewarding experiences, such as eating a tasty bar of chocolate, and though it could make one invest considerable effort in obtaining the object of our desire, it does not necessarily increase the enjoyment we experience.
According to the study, stress prompted chocolate lovers in an experiment to exert three times as much effort to smell chocolate than unstressed chocolate lovers, but both groups reported about the same level of enjoyment when they got a whiff of the pleasing aroma.
The study is published in APA's Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition.
Source: ANI
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