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- Consumption orientations may support (or hinder)transitions to more plant-based dietsPublication . Graça, João; Truninger, Monica; Junqueira, Luís; Schmidt, LuisaThere have been increasing calls for triggering and sustaining a large-scale transition toward healthier and more sustainable food systems. To help materialize this transition, the present work aims to inform efforts for developing, marketing and promoting plant-based meals and plant-forward lifestyles, following a consumption-focused approach. The findings (N participants = 1600, Portugal; 52.6% female, M age = 48.30) allowed to identify trends and differences on three sets of variables – (a)current eating habits (i.e., meat, fish, and plant-based meals), (b)consumer willingness to change (i.e., reduce meat consumption, follow a plant-based diet, maintain the status quo), and (c)enablers for eating plant-based meals more often (i.e., capability, opportunity, motivation)–, considering consumer orientations toward consumption in general, and food consumption in particular. Taken together, the results suggested that some consumption orientations were aligned with the transition to more plant-based diets (e.g., food orientation toward naturalness), others were open to – but not yet materialized in – the transition (e.g., general orientation toward consumption as exploration), and still others were in tension with the transition (e.g., food orientation toward pleasure). The discussion calls for developing and testing pathways to reduce meat consumption and increase plant-based eating which capture and build upon a range of consumption orientations, rather than against them.
- An international survey of perceptions of the 2014 FIFA World Cup: national levels of corruption as a context for perceptions of institutional corruptionPublication . Nezlek, John B.; Newman, David B.; Schütz, Astrid; Baumeister, Roy F.; Schug, Joanna; Joshanloo, Mohsen; Lopes, Paulo N.; Alt, Nicholas P.; Cypryańska, Marzena; Depietri, Marco; Gorbaniuk, Oleg; Huguet, Pascal; Kafetsios, Konstantinos; Koydemir, Selda; Kuppens, Peter; Park, Sanghee; Martin, Alvaro San; Schaafsma, Juliette; Simunovic, Dora; Yokota, KunihiroWe conducted a survey about the 2014 FIFA World Cup that measured attitudes about FIFA, players, and officials in 18 languages with 4600 respondents from 29 countries. Sixty percent of respondents perceived FIFA officials as being dishonest, and people from countries with less institutional corruption and stronger rule of law perceived FIFA officials as being more corrupt and less competent running the tournament than people from countries with more corruption and weaker rule of law. In contrast, respondents evaluated players as skilled and honest and match officials as competent and honest. We discuss the implications of our findings for perceptions of corruption in general.
- (Re)creando al ‘Otro’ a través de pósteres de propaganda maoísta: entre manifestación popular de identidades y recuerdo kitschPublication . Hernández, BeatrizWith the triumph of Mao, the construction of a Chinese identity was delineated through incessant watchwords and ubiquitous advertising. Facing the nation one could distinguish the ‘Others’, this time differentiated between friendly countries – the socialist brothers – and opponents– or the imperialistic and capitalistic demons Yizu (异族) – following the socialist revolutionary dialectics. This binary opposition inspired a great number of propaganda posters, put into circulation between 1949 and 1976 in order to instruct the mainly illiterate population. The same visual code that portrayed foreigners as barbarians and invaders – which resonated all through the 90’s – reverberates also nowadays, showing that the dynamic cultural shifts, contradictions and tensions that it preserves are a product of the constant accumulation of meanings, adjoined due to experiences, appraising and shifting contexts. As a matter of fact, the multiplicity of usages and the difference of contexts promote the sense of a ‘deferred’ meaning that both ‘differs’ and ‘defers’. By looking at original propaganda posters and its sequels, this article traces what has changed in the image that China formulated about its ‘Others’ – whether westerners, transnational or transregional identities, such as hongkongers -, what has been excluded, neglected, repressed or affixed in the process of rearranging beyond their original context.