Meat-related cognitive dissonance: A conceptual framework for understanding how meat eaters reduce negative arousal from eating animals

H Rothgerber - Appetite, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Meat eaters encounter a conflict between their eating behavior and their affections toward
animals. Because this “meat paradox” highlights discrepancies between behavior and …

Potential development of sustainable 3D-printed meat analogues: a review

K Ramachandraiah - Sustainability, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
To mitigate the threat of climate change driven by livestock meat production, a multifaceted
approach that incorporates dietary changes, innovative product development, advances in …

Drivers and barriers toward reducing meat consumption

I Cheah, AS Shimul, J Liang, I Phau - Appetite, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to explore the consumers' attitude and intention toward
reducing meat consumption. In exploring such, the influence of social norm, perceived …

Real men don't eat (vegetable) quiche: Masculinity and the justification of meat consumption.

H Rothgerber - Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 2013‏ - psycnet.apa.org
As arguments become more pronounced that meat consumption harms the environment,
public health, and animals, meat eaters should experience increased pressure to justify their …

Meat eaters by dissociation: How we present, prepare and talk about meat increases willingness to eat meat by reducing empathy and disgust

JR Kunst, SM Hohle - Appetite, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Many people enjoy eating meat but dislike causing pain to animals. Dissociating meat from
its animal origins may be a powerful way to avoid cognitive dissonance resulting from this …

Meat‐related cognitive dissonance: The social psychology of eating animals

H Rothgerber, DL Rosenfeld - Social and Personality …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
As the practice of eating animals as meat faces increased scrutiny for its ethical, health, and
environmental implications, a subfield devoted to its psychology has begun to flourish …

Neutralising the meat paradox: Cognitive dissonance, gender, and eating animals

E Dowsett, C Semmler, H Bray, RA Ankeny… - Appetite, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Meat eating is a common behaviour, despite many people claiming to like, love, and care
about animals. The apparent disconnection between not wanting animals to suffer, yet killing …

Plant-based meat alternatives: Motivational adoption barriers and solutions

S Jahn, P Furchheim, AM Strässner - Sustainability, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Meat consumption is increasingly being seen as unsustainable. However, plant-based meat
alternatives (PBMA) are not widely accepted yet. PBMA aim to imitate the experience of …

Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity

A Salmen, K Dhont - Social and Personality Psychology …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Images of sexualized women depicted as animals or alongside meat are routinely used in
advertising in Western culture. Philosophers and feminist scholars have long theorized that …

Efforts to overcome vegetarian-induced dissonance among meat eaters

H Rothgerber - Appetite, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Meat eaters face dissonance whether it results from inconsistency (“I eat meat; I don't like to
hurt animals”), aversive consequences (“I eat meat; eating meat harms animals”), or threats …