An important amount of studies investigates food, individuals and groups' relation to food.
Some of them convoke the theoretical framework of social representations. These ones refer …

Thinking and talking in everyday life differs from thinking and talking in more formal contexts,
and that difference is not always taken into account in social psychology. What is needed is …

Since the first edition of The Psychology of Risk there have been enormous macro-economic
and socio-political changes globally-the chaos in the world banking system and the financial …

Монография освещает историю и развитие концепции социальных представлений,
обобщает результаты многолетней работы автора. Большое внимание уделяется …

In the Spring of 2003, there was a huge interest in the global news media following the
emergence of a new infectious disease: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). This …

Background The outbreak of the pandemic flu, Influenza A H1N1 (Swine Flu) in early 2009,
provided a major challenge to health services around the world. Previous pandemics have …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how social representation theory (SRT)
can be used to understand the concept of resistance to change. SRT is a growing theory in …

A witch's curse, an imperialist conspiracy, a racist plot—HIV/AIDS is a catastrophic health
crisis with complex cultural dimensions. From small villages to the international system …

Using social representations theory this paper casts light on the pattern of content that
characterises the public response to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EID) …

The aim of the present study was to investigate social representations of wine as a function
of wine expertise and culture. Wine expertise has been studied extensively in the field of …