Mimic eating

• When I was a kid, I used to spend hours listening to Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky on their Sunday night call-in radio show Loveline.
(Huffington Post)
• When people share a meal together, they tend to eat as much or as little as their dining companion does, as many studies have shown.
(Newsday)
• Washington, Feb 2 (ANI): Your dining partners can influence your eating behavior and vice versa.
(Newstrack India)
• In this small study, young women were significantly more likely to take a bite when the person with whom they were sharing a meal drew her fork to her mouth, suggesting that behavioral mimicry may be at work during dinner.
(MedPage Today)
• The women, they found, tended to take bites of food at roughly the same time and mimic each others overall eating behavior.
(CNN)
• The researchers found that the women tended to mimic each other's eating behavior — taking bites when their dining partner took a bite.
(Time)
• If the young of a species dont mimic the dietary patterns of the adults, they risk ingesting poisons, or starving.  In the bluntest terms- we learn what, when, and how to eat (by) watching others of our kind.
(YAHOO!)
• And get this: Demonstrators will be lying naked on large trays and covered with clear plastic in order to mimic typical meat packages, according to think hard about what meat is.
(Los Angeles Weekly)