We are what we eat: Cross‐cultural self‐prioritization effects for food stimuli.
Previous research has shown that the concept of self is malleable and can be associated with various arbitrary stimuli. This study explored whether the self could be linked to images of food representative of one's own or a different culture. We compared two groups, Italian and Japanese individuals,...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 117; no. 1; pp. 177 - 192 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2026
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