Study: Men Eat More When Women Are Around

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New research shows men eat more when they’re in the presence of women than when they’re in the presence of men, Fox News reports.

A study from Cornell University published in the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science, found that, of 105 men they followed, 93% ate more pizza and 86% more salad when with women than with men.

“Overeating is a way of using body language to say, I have so much energy that I can afford to engage in some specific kind of risky or altruistic activity,” lead researcher Kevin Kniffin at Cornell University told Live Science, while other studies show similar trends of men engaging in riskier behaviors in front of women than men.

But researchers say this behavior is not necessarily a turn-on for women.

In fact, women who “ate roughly the same regardless of the gender of their company, reported feeling that they overate and were rushed when dining with men.”

“These findings suggest that men tend to overeat to show off—you can also see this tendency in eating competitions, which almost always have mostly male participants,” Kniffin said.