"The Psychology of Food and Eating provides more than a d̀ry' decontextualised physiological explanation of food and eating. It moves on to enable students to see food in its wider context in terms of everyday life and real routines. It provides an overview of social scientific approaches to the study of food (bio-social, socio-anthropological, structural, feminist/psychodynamic) and an appreciation of the various ways that social psychological perspectives can be applied to real-life contexts. John L. Smith is Reader in Social Psychology at the University of Sunderland, where he has taught since completing his doctoral research with the Medical Research Council at its Social and Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Sheffield."--Jacket.