Compassion and contamination. Cultural differences in vegetarianism
| Autor: | Steven J. Heine, Tessa Cheng, Mahadevi S. Waddar, Shanmukh V. Kamble, Matthew B. Ruby |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Male Canada Meat Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject India Compassion Animal Welfare Choice Behavior Food Preferences Young Adult Cultural diversity Animal welfare Food choice Humans General Psychology media_common Nutrition and Dietetics Cultural Characteristics Diet Vegetarian Middle Aged Ingroups and outgroups Sustainability Female Empathy Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Appetite. 71 |
| ISSN: | 1095-8304 |
| Popis: | A growing body of research has shown that Western vegetarians report more concern for animal welfare and environmental sustainability, and endorse more liberal values than do Western omnivores. However, despite the prevalence of Indian vegetarianism, its psychological associations and underpinnings remain largely unexamined. In Study 1, we find that Euro-American vegetarians are more concerned than omnivores with the impact of their daily food choices on the environment and animal welfare, show more concern for general animal welfare, and endorse universalistic values more, yet among Indian participants, these differences are not significant. In Study 2, we show that Indian vegetarians more strongly endorse the belief that eating meat is polluting, and show a heightened concern for the conservative ethics of Purity, Authority, and Ingroup relative to their omnivorous peers, whereas these differences are largely absent among Euro-Canadians and Euro-Americans. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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