Understanding Westerners' disgust for the eating of insects: The role of food neophobia and implicit associations
Understanding Westerners' disgust for the eating of insects: The role of food neophobia and implicit associations
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DOI：
10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.10.002
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发表时间：
2018-03-01
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
Grunert, Klaus
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作者：
La Barbera, Francesco;Verneau, Fabio;Grunert, Klaus
人们对在人类饮食中引入昆虫的可能性的兴趣正在逐渐增加，人们已经假设昆虫对人类健康和环境都有一些好处。然而，特别是在西方国家，这一趋势可能会受到人们对昆虫食物的厌恶的危害。在本文中，我们研究了食物新恐惧症和厌恶对食用昆虫类食物的意向的影响，并研究了厌恶与对昆虫的内隐态度之间的关系。结果表明，食物新恐惧症和厌恶对食用昆虫的意向都有独立的贡献，而且厌恶的解释力要高得多。此外，内隐态度对厌恶有显著影响，内隐态度对厌恶介导的意向有间接影响。讨论了鼓励人们将昆虫为基础的食物纳入他们的饮食的含义，特别提到了内隐联想在决定厌恶反应中的作用。
The interest for the potential introduction of insects in the human diet is progressively increasing and several benefits for both human health and the environment have been hypothesised. However, especially in Western Countries, this trend could be jeopardized by the aversion that people show for insects as food. In the present paper, we study the impact of food neo-phobia and disgust on the intention to eat insect based food, and we look at how disgust is related to implicit attitude towards insects. Results show that both food neo-phobia and disgust make independent contributions to the intention to eat insects, and the explanatory power of disgust is considerably higher. Moreover, a significant effect of implicit attitude on disgust and an indirect effect of implicit attitude on intention mediated by disgust have been found. Implications for attempts to encourage people to incorporate insect-based foods into their diet are discussed, with special reference to the role of implicit association in determining the disgust reaction.