Project

You are what you eat, or shouldn’t you? An inquiry on social identity message framing as a stragegy to promote weak and strong routes of change towards meat-reduced diets.

Code
3F015417
Duration
01 October 2017 → 30 September 2021
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Consumer behaviour
    • Group and interpersonal relations
    • Science and health communication
Keywords
Behavioral Change Message Framing Meat Reduction Sustainability Social Identity Theory
 
Project description

Sustainable development requires lower levels of meat consumption worldwide. The proposed research draws on Message Framing Theory and Social Identity Theory to investigate how message framing based on social identity may be used as a strategy to promote meat-reduced diets among meat consumers. Using four experiments we will examine the effect of different message strategies on meat-reduction intentions.