Does a small entrée lead to a big dessert?

Researchers asked 74 people to eat as much of an entrée (macaroni and cheese) and a dessert (ice cream) as they wanted. On four subsequent occasions, the scientists shrunk each participant’s entrée to 90 percent, 85 percent, 80 percent, or 75 percent of the amount that he or she had eaten on the first day.
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