Hobden K, Pliner P
Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Appetite. 1995 Oct;25(2):101-13. doi: 10.1006/appe.1995.0046.
In study 1, subjects who were high and low in trait food neophobia made a series of choices between novel or familiar foods in the presence of no model, a neophilic model who chose mostly novel foods, or a neophobic model who chose mostly familiar foods and made another series of choices in private from foods which were not modeled. Subjects who were low (but not high) in trait neophobia behaved in accordance with the behavior of the neophilic (but not neophobic) model in the model's presence (but not absence). Study 2 clarified the results of study 1, revealing that the phenomenon was modeling and not conformity, that even highly neophobic subjects can be influenced by a stronger modeling manipulation, that food neophobia can be both increased and decreased, and that the reduced neophobia induced by exposure to a neophilic model does not generalize to non-modeled foods.
在研究1中，特质食物新恐惧症程度高和低的受试者在没有示范者、偏好新食物的示范者（大多选择新食物）或恐惧新食物的示范者（大多选择熟悉食物）在场的情况下，对新食物或熟悉食物进行了一系列选择，然后私下里从未被示范过的食物中又进行了一系列选择。特质新恐惧症程度低（而非高）的受试者在示范者在场（而非不在场）时，其行为与偏好新食物（而非恐惧新食物）的示范者一致。研究2阐明了研究1的结果，揭示该现象是模仿而非从众，即即使是高度恐惧新食物的受试者也会受到更强的模仿操纵的影响，食物新恐惧症既能增强也能减弱，并且接触偏好新食物的示范者所引发的新恐惧症减轻并不会扩展到未被示范的食物上。
