These past two weeks we have discussed hunger, satiety, taste and smell in psychology.  We had also briefly discussed certain cues like food cues and social cues. I never realized how much these cues affect my life on a daily basis until I actually started paying attention to them. Food cues usually occur when we spot a familiar logo, scent, or conjure up an image and suddenly have a craving for that food or beverage. This almost always happens to me during the winter. I always had a habit to buy a hot beverage whenever it was a rainy or cold day before class started. So this past week, while the weather has been on and off I’ve had a craving for a hot latte, which I definitely indulged myself in. Social cues are defined to be “verbal or non-verbal indicators that give people an idea of how they are being accepted or rejected in any given situation.” Usually, this includes facial expressions, body language, and tone, but not always. On Wednesday, a group of us were having lunch at the dining hall before class. We had all eaten and were just talking when one of us decided to go and get some dessert. When we all saw her coming back with the dessert, we all got up to get dessert ourselves. I did not have a craving for dessert until she got up and came back with it and I wasn’t the only one. It was not until after we had all finished that I realized this was a social cue. In conclusion, cues are ingrained in our daily lives and most of the time we don’t even realize it.