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Table 2 How price paid influence overeating

From: RETRACTED ARTICLE: Low prices and high regret: how pricing influences regret at all-you-can-eat buffets

 

$4 (Discounted-price)

$8 (Full-price)

F-Statistics

 

One piece (n = 18)

Two pieces (n = 18)

Three pieces (n = 7)

One piece (n = 17)

Two pieces (n = 19)

Three pieces (n = 10)

Effect of price

Effect of pieces

Effect of price x pieces

I ate more pizza than I should have

2.63 (2.06)

4.82 (2.55)

6.00 (2.00)

1.76 (1.82)

3.53 (2.39)

4.40 (3.24)

5.37*

10.77**

0.15

I feel guilty about how much I ate

2.39 (1.94)

3.44 (2.47)

3.71 (1.49)

2.26 (1.79)

1.68 (1.42)

2.90 (2.08)

4.28*

1.49

1.67

I am physically uncomfortable

2.17 (1.88)

2.94 (2.12)

2.43 (1.51)

1.97 (1.68)

1.45 (0.94)

2.25 (1.81)

4.19*

0.25

1.15

I overate

2.11 (1.81)

3.89 (2.59)

3.71 (1.79)

1.67 (1.28)

1.67 (1.24)

3.50 (2.74)

5.02*

4.09*

2.27

I ate more than I should have

2.50 (2.20)

4.28 (2.44)

4.57 (2.22)

2.00 (1.45)

2.14 (1.77)

3.92 (2.81)

6.20*

5.00*

1.14

  1. *p < .05, **p < .01
  2. All scaled questions are measured on a Likert scale with 1 = strongly disagree and 9 = strongly agree. Standard deviations are in parentheses