Consumer acceptance of new food technologies: Causes and roots of controversies

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 381-405

  Lusk, Jayson L ^a   Roosen, Jutta ^b   Bieberstein, Andrea ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

food neophobia; food technology; heuristics; risk perception; technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908270564     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-100913-012735     Document Type: Article

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