Development and cross-cultural validation of a shortened social representations scale of new foods

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 226-234

  Onwezen, Marleen C ^a   Bartels, Jos ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Innovation; Novel foods; Shortened scale; Social representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868236539     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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