Organic food choices and Protection Motivation Theory: Addressing the psychological sources of heterogeneity

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 532-541

  Scarpa, Riccardo ^a,c   Thiene, Mara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudinal questions; Choice modeling; Latent class models; Organic products; Unobserved preference heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

DAUCUS CAROTA;

EID: 79955958557     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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