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When it comes to the ritual act of dating,

participants often have very different expectations.

Some hope to meet their soulmate. Others seek companionship. Some are

looking for a good time and think that springing for a meal entitles them to one. And now

a new study finds that some women say that now and again they just want to

score some lobster tails. The finding is in the journal Social, Psychological, and Personality

Science. You're probably wondering how he came up with this idea. social psychological and personality science.

You're probably wondering how he came up with this idea.

Brian Collison, a social psychologist at Azusa Pacific University in California.

Collison says he's always been intrigued, in a scientific sense, by romantic relationships.

So when one of his co-authors, Trista Herrig, also at Isusa Pacific, told him about this interesting new phenomenon that Maxim magazine had nicknamed a foodie call.

We're curious to explore how often women date men for food rather than a relationship.

In this study, the researchers focused on heterosexual women, in part because based on long-standing cultural expectations, men often pick up the tab, particularly on a first date.

In a pair of online surveys, the researchers asked more than a thousand women,

have you ever agreed to date someone you were not interested in a relationship with because he might pay for your meal?

We found that approximately 23 to 23% of women surveyed had engaged in a foodie call.

Of those who admitted to having swiped right for the free eats, the majority claimed to have

done so only occasionally or rarely.

But about a quarter admitted accepting the restaurant outings with greater frequency.

The respondents most likely to engage in this type of dating for dinner behavior were those

who endorsed traditional gender role beliefs,

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