The document summarizes and compares two articles about comfort food and emotional attachment. The first article is a media piece that explains how food creates comfort through emotional memories but lacks credible sources. The second is a research study that experimentally confirms people's emotional connections to specific foods. While both discuss the emotional role of comfort foods, the research study provides a more credible analysis through its organized experimental design and consideration of different participants' perspectives.

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Homework Assignment 2
Melannie Castaneda
Texas Woman’ s University

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Homework Assignment 2
In the article “ The Science of Why You Crave Comfort Food” the author explains the
relationship between comfort food and the feeling of happiness. Comfort food is seen as food
that is suppose to make people feel better and it does but the article goes into a deeper meaning
of what comfort food really is. The author explained that food creates comfort because it’s linked
with our memories that connect to our emotion, which can brings back memories of happy times.
This article had more to do with explaining how the food brings people comfort because it is
connect to a memory that makes them happy. This article is less straight facts and more about
graving the audience’s attention. (Sufferlin, A. (2015, July 29) The Science of Why You Crave
Comfort Food. Time Retrieved from http:/www.time.com).
In the second reading, the research journal article conducted an experiment to examine if
food triggers an emotional connection with people. The article did deep research on how people
find a specific food which can cause them to achieve an emotional satisfaction. The researchers
knew that people saw the how food is tied with the emotion feeling but people didn’t explore
how people pick certain food due to them having an emotional connection to them instead of just
craving them. Two separate study’s involving college students was conducted the study 1 was
how student that were securely attached students craved comfort food in a belongingness threat.
Study 2 was conducted to confirm the hypothesis and back it up even more making it credible.
This article was more about informing the audience and less about entertaining them. It contains
more facts and lots of useful information.

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While the two articles previously described used different ways to explain their argument
they both shared the same idea. The articles both believed that comfort food is craved because it
has an emotional attachment. Both articles gave the readers a scenario to which people would in
a way create a connection to the reading. While the first scenario was more personal the second
on actually made a study to give the audience evidence of how people have some emotional
attachment to food. Both articles included different sources, which helped them back up their
arguments and making them seem more credible.
The media article “ The Science of Why You Crave Comfort Food” wants to explain how
food had an emotional attachment when craving some specific foods. The author of the article
included different sources, which showed how the author wanted to give the audience a credible
understanding on the subject. The author not only included credible study’s it also broke them
down in order for the audience to understand. From the beginning the article started of by giving
the audience a person story that lead them to think about food that made them feel at home then
she started listing different food that are most commonly consumed for comfort pairing this up
broke down and made clear on how food happy memories are connected. Once the author
achieved to obtain this connection it started to add creditable sources. By adding this, the author
described the type of research being done in a simple understandable way. When reading the
article the audience had a clear understanding on how the research was being done.
When it came down to generalizing the information the author did include all people. The
article failed to explain how people that may be in a different emotional standing would react to
comfort food but instead it made it to be that all people create have the same emotional
attachment to comfort food instead of just being about just craving it. The media article topic
was comfort food and the science to do with the need to have it, which was seen thru out the

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paper but it did lack more emphasis on the background. The paper did include some sources that
talked about the topic and informed the reader but it lacked some credibility. It made it seem like
the topic less understandable and more of one of those many research studies that seem
interesting but fail to be proven correctly. By doing this it made it seem more like a less
important theory and more of an immature one. The media report was not seemed to be bias to
the idea of comfort foods.
When reading the research journal paper the audience noticed a way different approach
the paper seem way more credible. This paper had a clear idea of what the research was about it
stated it from the beginning of the reading and it even added other studies about food that had a
tie with people craving it giving the readers different views on the subject. The paper had a study
and the study was organized by having people with different social standing and not just made it
about people seeing food alike but researched how it was portrayed to different participants
leaving room for the result to be less specified and more open. This article got straight to the
point and explained the topic accurately. When the paper included the study it make it seem
more of a real thing and less of just a random experiment to prove a point it opened up the way
people see the mind work.
Overall, the media article was more of just a piece to entertainment and less of way to
inform the readers about how out mind works in mysterious ways to make us feel happy. It did a
great job at entertaining but it was not so good at giving good information that would impact the
way people see comfort food cravings as. The information was limited but it did raise questions
but the information given was more general not fully explain the way other people may perceive
comfort foods.

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References
Sufferlin, A. (2015, July 29) The Science of Why You Crave Comfort Food. Time Retrieved
from http://www.time.com.
Troisi Jordan D, Gabriel Shira, Derrick Jaye I, Geiser Alyssa. (2015) Threatened belonging
and preferences for comfort food among the securely attached