Interpersonal food behaviors, such as food sharing and food offering, are associated with closeness between people and thought to facilitate the formation and strengthening of social bonds. Despite the importance of food and food-related behavior in general and for social bonding specifically, there is relatively little research about the psychological underpinnings of food-related behavior within relationship science. To fill this gap, we conducted three studies focusing on food behaviors and attachment style. In Study 1, we found attachment avoidance to be negatively associated with engagement in food sharing behaviors, and with a lower likelihood of dating a potential partner due to the partner's food preferences. In Study 2, we found that enhancing attachment security increased the tendency to offer one's food to a fellow participant. In Study 3, we found that the tendency to accept food from a fellow participant was positively associated with attachment anxiety, but security priming did not affect this tendency. Implications for attachment, close relationships, and food sciences are discussed.

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食物如何让我们走到一起：依恋与食物行为之间的联系

人际间的食物行为，如食物分享和食物提供，与人与人之间的亲密关系和思想有关，以促进社会联系的形成和加强。尽管食物和食物相关行为在一般情况下很重要，特别是对于社会联系很重要，但在关系科学中关于食物相关行为的心理基础的研究相对较少。为了填补这一空白，我们进行了三项研究，重点关注食物行为和依恋风格。在研究 1 中，我们发现依恋回避与参与食物分享行为呈负相关，并且由于合作伙伴的食物偏好而与潜在合作伙伴约会的可能性较低。在研究 2 中，我们发现增强依恋安全性会增加向其他参与者提供食物的倾向。在研究 3 中，我们发现接受同伴食物的倾向与依恋焦虑呈正相关，但安全启动并未影响这种倾向。讨论了依恋、亲密关系和食品科学的含义。