University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2023 Nov;49(11):1601-1614. doi: 10.1177/01461672221099392. Epub 2022 Jul 7.
Shifting societal eating patterns toward a vegetarian diet offers promise for improving public health and environmental sustainability. Yet concerns exist about racial disparities in inclusion, as some sentiments suggest that vegetarianism is stereotypically associated with Whiteness. Through four studies (total = 3,234), we investigated associations U.S. adults hold between race and vegetarianism, along with implications for behavior change and belongingness among Black individuals. Participants, across racial backgrounds, strongly associated vegetarianism with Whiteness, both explicitly and implicitly. A race prime led Black participants to report lower interest in becoming a vegetarian, whereas a prime of race-vegetarianism associations decreased Black participants' feelings of belongingness in the vegetarian community. Exposure to racially inclusive messaging about vegetarianism, meanwhile, increased belongingness among Black participants. These findings provide the first quantitative insights into racial stereotypes about vegetarianism and pose future directions for theory, research, and practice at the intersections of race and eating behavior.
转向素食的社会饮食习惯有望改善公众健康和环境可持续性。然而，人们对包容性方面的种族差异存在担忧，因为一些观点认为素食主义通常与白种人有关。通过四项研究（总计 = 3234 人），我们调查了美国成年人对种族和素食主义的看法之间的关联，以及这些看法对黑人个体的行为改变和归属感的影响。来自不同种族背景的参与者都明确和含蓄地将素食主义与白种人联系在一起。种族启动使黑人参与者报告对成为素食主义者的兴趣降低，而种族-素食主义关联的启动则降低了黑人参与者对素食社区的归属感。同时，接触到关于素食主义的包容种族信息增加了黑人参与者的归属感。这些发现首次提供了关于素食主义种族刻板印象的定量见解，并为种族和饮食行为交叉领域的理论、研究和实践提出了未来的方向。
