التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Social Influence and Meat-Eating Behaviour |
| المؤلفون: |
Jiaqi Ge, Andrea Scalco, Tony Craig |
| المصدر: |
Sustainability; Volume 14; Issue 13; Pages: 7935 |
| بيانات النشر: |
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| سنة النشر: |
2022 |
| المجموعة: |
MDPI Open Access Publishing |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
meat-eating behaviour, vegetarianism, social influence, social interaction, agent-based modelling |
| جغرافية الموضوع: |
agris |
| الوصف: |
In recent years, interest in non-meat diets has been growing at an exponential rate in many countries. There is a wide consensus now that increased meat consumption is linked to higher health risks and environmental impact. Yet humans are social animals. Even the very personal decision of whether to eat meat or not is influenced by others around them. Using data from the British Social Attitude Survey, we develop an agent-based model to study the effect of social influence on the spread of meat-eating behaviour in the British population. We find that social influence is crucial in determining the spread of different meat-eating behaviours. According to the model, in order to bring about large-scale changes in meat-eating behaviours at the national level, people need to (1) have a strong openness to influences from others who have different meat-eating behaviour and (2) have a weak tendency to reinforce their current meat-eating behaviour after observing others in their own social group sharing the same behaviour. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
text |
| وصف الملف: |
application/pdf |
| اللغة: |
English |
| Relation: |
Sustainable Food; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14137935 |
| DOI: |
10.3390/su14137935 |
| الاتاحة: |
https://doi.org/10.3390/su14137935 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.82B07100 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |