The Social Psychology of Eating

Preface

 

1.            Area of study

1.1          The social psychology of eating

1.2          Food characteristics

1.3          Psychosocial dimension

1.4          Other micro-dimensions1.5          Macro-dimensions



 

2.            Processes and stages of choice

2.1          Food choice process

2.2          Theory of planned behavior

2.3          The stages of the choice

2.4          Buying and transporting food2.5          Preparing food



2.6          Serving food and eating it

2.7          Storing, accumulating, and wasting

 

3.            Cognitive factors

3.1          Food literacy

3.2          Motives3.3          Attitudes



 

4.            Emotional factors

4.1          Emotional eating

4.2          Eating

Patrizia Catellani is a full professor of Social Psychology at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy. She is director of PsyLab (Psychology, Law and Policy Lab). She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Social Survey (ESS) and of the PNRR Fostering Open Science in Social Science (FOSSR) research infrastructure. Her research focuses on reasoning, decision making, and communication in different social and political contexts. She has explored how food and health communication can be made more effective in promoting healthy and sustainable purchasing and consumption decisions. An extension of this research direction focuses on the integration of social psychology and artificial intelligence. The goal is to develop digital communication systems that promote health, well-being, and sustainability through personalized framing. Quick profiling is used to identify optimal communication strategies for behaviour change, taking into account individuals' resources and motivations. Related research areas have explored the impact of prefactual communication aimed at promoting public policy, for example on climate change mitigation and adaptation, by strategically framing possible future scenarios to appeal to and persuade audiences. Other research areas explore how people develop different representations and alternative explanations of events with political, legal, or personal relevance. The focus is on counterfactual reasoning and communication ("If... then..."), and on the conditions that can promote a complete and truthful analysis of events or, conversely, a strategic representation of the past that highlights possible better or worse alternatives that are compatible with one's own worldview. She is the author of some one hundred and thirty publications, including journal articles and books. The detailed profile and all activities can be found at www.patriziacatellani.com