“Are you sure that sauce isn’t spicy?” I ask without fail before I order in a restaurant. “Oh, no, not at all,” I am assured every time. When the meal comes, everyone at my table rolls ...
of expectations regarding spicy sauce … allowed us to examine how these two aspects interact and affect subjective experiences and neural responses.” The study’s results suggest that there ...
a low-intensity blue and an “intense” red while being asked how spicy their mouths felt. After analyzing the results, the researchers from the East China Normal University found that, at the sight of ...
The researchers identified participants who liked versus those who strongly disliked spicy flavors and provided contextual cues about the spiciness of the sauce to be tasted. That way, they were ...