A comparison of dietarian identity profiles between vegetarians and vegans
By Daniel L. Rosenfeld. Food Quality and Preference, 2019
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Abstract Vegetarianism and veganism are often grouped together in nutritional and psychological investigations. Yet an emerging body of literature has highlighted that vegetarians and vegans differ along a number of neurological, attitudinal, and behavioral variables. In this research, I found that vegetarians and vegans exhibit different dietarian identity profiles. Compared to vegetarians, vegans saw their dietary patterns as more intertwined with their identity (higher centrality), had more positive feelings toward their dietary in-group (higher private regard), felt as if other people judge them more negatively for following their dietary patterns (lower public regard), evaluated out-group dieters more negatively (lower out-group regard), and had stronger motivations for following their dietary patterns (higher prosocial, personal, and moral motivations). By distinguishing between vegetarians and vegans more concretely, investigators can capture meaningful within-group heterogeneity in how people think, feel, and behave when it comes to eschewing animal products.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecology, Small Animals
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Citations in the corpus
- Gender differences in vegetarian identity: How men and women construe meatless dieting (2020, methodology): “Still, whether or not a gender effect would emerge for vegetarian dietary strictness remained unclear, as the moral psychological and social identity factors surrounding vegetarian dieting adherence (e.g., Rosenfeld, 2019d) may make it markedly distinct from other forms of eating behavior.”
- From mostly vegetarian to fully vegetarian: Meat avoidance and the expression of social identity (2020, background): “Although vegetarians, on average, are not judgmental of meat-eaters’ food choices (Minson & Monin, 2012; Rosenfeld, 2019c), some vegetarians do evaluate people negatively for eating meat (Beardsworth & Keil, 1992; LeRette, 2014; Rosenfeld, 2019c).”