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APPETITE
卷 123, 期 -, 页码 280-288出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.01.005
关键词
Meat consumption; Cognitive dissonance; Gender differences
资金
- Australian Research Council [LP130100419]
- Coles Group Ltd
- Elders Limited
- Richard Gunner's Fine Meats Pty Ltd
- South Australian Research and Development Institute
- Australian Research Council [LP130100419] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
Meat eating is a common behaviour, despite many people claiming to like, love, and care about animals. The apparent disconnection between not wanting animals to suffer, yet killing them for food, has been termed the 'meat paradox.' In this experimental study (N = 460), participants completed pre-affect, post affect, meat attachment, and attitude towards animals questionnaires, under two conditions: exposure to the life of an Australian meat lamb, and information about the nutritional benefits of meat. A factorial MANOVA revealed that negative affect was significantly greater when participants were exposed to the meat-animal connection; however, more entrenched attitudes towards animals and attachment to meat remained unaffected. Significant gender effects were found across all variables: most notably, meat attachment differed according to gender, decreasing in women and increasing in men when exposed to the meat-animal condition. Open-ended responses were subjected to content analysis to understand participants' future meat-consumption preferences and accompanying reasoning strategies. Findings from the present study contribute to understanding how cognitive dissonance and inconsistencies are rationalised by meat consumers. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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