Understanding Westerners’ disgust for the eating of insects: The role of food neophobia and implicit associations

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 64, Issue , 2018, Pages 120-125

  La Barbera, Francesco ^a   Verneau, Fabio ^a   Amato, Mario ^a   Grunert, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Disgust; Implicit attitudes; Insects; Neo phobia

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031412084     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.10.002     Document Type: Article

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