Date of Award
2011
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
Behavioral Sciences
First Advisor
Karl G. Bailey
Abstract
This study examines the differences in implicit attitudes toward meat and vegetables in religious vegetarians and omnivores on a religious, vegetarian campus. Response times and error rates from the Implicit Association Task (IAT) were used to examine whether external diet commitments consistently affect internal attitudes. We found a significant main effect of diet on IAT responses, but no significant interaction of diet with a self-control depleting task. Thus, participants' explicit responses were by far the strongest predictor of their implicit attitudes, demonstrating that, unlike short-term dietary choices, long-term dietary choices are robust in the face of self-control depletion.
Recommended Citation
Raethel, Ashley, "Is Vegetarianism a Diet? Implicit Associations of Vegetarians and Omnivores on a Vegetarian Campus" (2011). Honors Theses. 7.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/7/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/7
Subject Area
Vegetarians--Attitudes., Omnivores--Attitudes, Vegetarianism
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/7/