Vegetarians' and omnivores' affective and physiological responses to images of food.

ABSTRACT: Many vegetarians report that meat is unpleasant, but little else is known about their affective responses to meat and non-meat foods. Here we explored affective responses to food images in vegetarians and omnivores and tested the hypothesis that vegetarians have global differences in affective processing (e.g., increased disgust sensitivity). We presented pictures of different food items and recorded participants' affective experience while we recorded peripheral physiology. We found that vegetarians' self-reported experience of meat meal images was less pleasant than omnivores', but that other food images were equally pleasant across the two groups. Moreover, vegetarians and omnivores had strikingly similar physiological responses to all food images - including meat meals. We interpret th

SUBMITTER: Anderson EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6582652 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature