Broad themes of difference between French and Americans in attitudes to food and other life domains: Personal versus communal values, quantity versus quality, and comforts versus joys

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2011, Pages

  Rozin, Paul ^a   Remick, Abigail K ^b   Fischler, Claude ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

Culture; Food; France; Pleasure; USA; Variety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867053039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00177     Document Type: Article

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