Personality, self‐knowledge, and meat reduction intentions

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ID19280682
AutoresChristopher J Hopwood (0000-0001-6645-8645, Department of Psychology University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland, autor correspondente), Alexander G Stahlmann (0000-0003-3694-7610, Department of Psychology University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland), Wiebke Bleidorn (0000-0003-3795-8143, Department of Psychology University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland), Isabel Thielmann (0000-0002-9071-5709, Independent Research Group Personality, Identity, and Crime Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law Freiburg Germany)
Ano2024
Volume92
Fascículo4
Páginas1006-1023
Data de publicação2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Personality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jopy.12864
PMID37475581
OpenAlexW4384923695
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas71

OBJECTIVE: Meat consumption has a host of serious negative consequences for nonhuman animals, underprivileged humans, and the natural environment. Several interventions have been developed to encourage meat reduction but to relatively limited effect. There is also a range of established predictors of meat consumption, but much less is known about the factors that predict intentions to reduce meat consumption. The goal of this study was to determine the roles of personality and self-knowledge in meat reduction intentions. METHOD: In this set of three preregistered studies, we tested brief interventions to encourage meat reduction intentions and examined personality predictors of intentions to reduce meat consumption. RESULTS: We found no evidence that brief interventions with or without a self-knowledge component had a meaningful effect on changing meat reduction intentions. However, we found robust evidence for relatively small associations between intending to eat less meat and high Openness to Experience, high Emotionality, and perceiving meat reduction as moral behaviors. CONCLUSION: Individual differences may be a more influential predictor of meat reduction intentions than brief interventions. Implications for promoting meat reduction are discussed

Affect (linguistics) · Big Five personality traits · Consumption (sociology) · Openness to experience · Personality · Psychological intervention · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact · Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies · Communication · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology