Coping with unpleasant knowledge: Meat eating among students of environmental studies

Appetite

Volumn 107, Issue , 2016, Pages 415-424

  Šedová, Iveta ^a   Slovák, Ľuboš ^a   Ježková, Ivana ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cognitive dissonance; Coping strategy; Environmental studies students; Meat; Meat eating

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; COPING BEHAVIOR; EATING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FRIEND; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; POPULATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL NORM; THEORETICAL MODEL; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; ETHICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; MALE; MEAT; PEER PRESSURE; PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT; PEER INFLUENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STUDENTS;

EID: 84985036812     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2016.08.102     Document Type: Article

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