Development and psychometric evaluation of the Anticipated Food Scarcity Scale (AFSS)

• Main Authors: FOLWARCZNY, Michal, LI, Norman P., SIGURDSSON, Valdimar, TAN, Lynn K. L., OTTERBRING, Tobias
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Food scarcity; Food shortages; Food insecurity; The insurance hypothesis; Evolutionary mismatch; Applied Behavior Analysis; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3461; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4718/viewcontent/MainText.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Mass media extensively inform societies about events threatening the global food supply (e.g., pandemics or Brexit). Consumers exposed to such communication may perceive food resources as becoming scarcer. In line with an evolutionary account, these perceptions can shift decision-making in domains s...