Crisis communication, anticipated food scarcity, and food preferences: Preregistered evidence of the insurance hypothesis

• Main Authors: Folwarczny, Michal, Christensen, Jacob D., LI, Norman P., Sigurdsson, Valdimar, Otterbring, Tobias
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Climate change; Media exposure; Insurance hypothesis; Food preferences; Food scarcity; Applied Behavior Analysis; Food Science; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3460; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4717/viewcontent/Crisis_Comm_FoodPref_2020_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Whereas large-scale consumption of energy-dense foods contributes to climate change, we investigated whether exposure to climate change-induced food scarcity affects preferences toward these foods. Humans? current psychological mechanisms have developed in their ancestral evolutionary past to respon...