University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Appetite. 2013 Dec;71:340-8. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2013.09.004. Epub 2013 Sep 14.
A growing body of research has shown that Western vegetarians report more concern for animal welfare and environmental sustainability, and endorse more liberal values than do Western omnivores. However, despite the prevalence of Indian vegetarianism, its psychological associations and underpinnings remain largely unexamined. In Study 1, we find that Euro-American vegetarians are more concerned than omnivores with the impact of their daily food choices on the environment and animal welfare, show more concern for general animal welfare, and endorse universalistic values more, yet among Indian participants, these differences are not significant. In Study 2, we show that Indian vegetarians more strongly endorse the belief that eating meat is polluting, and show a heightened concern for the conservative ethics of Purity, Authority, and Ingroup relative to their omnivorous peers, whereas these differences are largely absent among Euro-Canadians and Euro-Americans.
越来越多的研究表明，与西方杂食者相比，吃素的西方人的动物福利和环境可持续性意识更强，更认同自由的价值观。然而，尽管印度的素食主义很普遍，但它的心理关联和基础在很大程度上仍未得到研究。在研究 1 中，我们发现欧美人的素食者比杂食者更关心他们的日常食物选择对环境和动物福利的影响，更关心一般的动物福利，更认同普遍主义价值观，但在印度参与者中，这些差异并不显著。在研究 2 中，我们表明，印度素食者更强烈地认同吃肉是污染的观点，并且相对于他们的杂食者同龄人，对纯洁、权威和内群体的保守伦理有更高的关注，而这些差异在欧裔加拿大人和欧裔美国人中则基本不存在。
