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The meaning of food in our lives: a cross-cultural perspective on eating and well-beingPaul Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 37:S107-12. 2005..The French physical environment encourages slow, moderate social eating, minimal snacking, and more physical activity in daily life...- Self-prediction of hedonic trajectories for repeated use of body products and foods: poor performance, not improved by a full generation of experiencePaul Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Appetite 46:297-303. 2006..In general, participants underestimate the degree to which their preferences will change... 
European and American perspectives on the meaning of naturalPaul Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Appetite 59:448-55. 2012..There is opposition to genetic engineering, which can be thought to be the opposite of natural, in all countries, but it is highest in continental Europe and lowest in the U.S.A...- The weirdest people in the world are a harbinger of the future of the worldPaul Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Behav Brain Sci 33:108-9. 2010..In the face of globalization, this is all the more reason to study the wonderful variants of the human condition before they become homogenized... - Exploring the landscape of modern academic psychology: finding and filling the holesPaul Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsyvania, Philadelphia 19104 6241, USA
Am Psychol 62:751-66. 2007..Psychologists should look more in the holes left behind by current enthusiasms... - Documenting and explaining the common AAB pattern in music and humor: establishing and breaking expectationsPaul Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Emotion 6:349-55. 2006..We also provide experimental evidence that the AAB pattern in jokes is maximally effective in producing a humor response in participants... - Attitudes towards large numbers of choices in the food domain: a cross-cultural study of five countries in Europe and the USAPaul Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Appetite 46:304-8. 2006..28). The results suggest that the US, and the UK to some extent, focus on providing choices that cater to individual differences in preferences, whereas the continental European countries are more attached to communal eating values... - The meaning of "natural": process more important than contentPaul Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, 19104, USA
Psychol Sci 16:652-8. 2005.... - Preference for natural: instrumental and ideational/moral motivations, and the contrast between foods and medicinesPaul Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6196, USA
Appetite 43:147-54. 2004..This suggests that a substantial part of the motivation for preferring natural is ideational (moral or aesthetic), as opposed to instrumental (healthiness/effectiveness or superior sensory properties)... - Mutual exposure or close peer relationships do not seem to foster increased similarity in food, music or television program preferencesPaul Rozin
Russell Sage Foundation
Appetite 42:41-8. 2004..The study does not speak to the influence of general peer norms... - Lay American conceptions of nutrition: dose insensitivity, categorical thinking, contagion, and the monotonic mindP Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104 6196, USA
Health Psychol 15:438-47. 1996.... - The ecology of eating: smaller portion sizes in France Than in the United States help explain the French paradoxPaul Rozin
University of Pennsylvania and CNRS, Paris, France
Psychol Sci 14:450-4. 2003..Ironically, although the French eat less than Americans, they seem to eat for a longer period of time, and hence have more food experience. The French can have their cake and eat it as well... - The CAD triad hypothesis: a mapping between three moral emotions (contempt, anger, disgust) and three moral codes (community, autonomy, divinity)P Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104 6196, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 76:574-86. 1999..Results generally supported the CAD triad hypothesis. Results were further confirmed by analysis of facial expressions actually made by Americans to the descriptions of these situations... - High frequency of facial expressions corresponding to confusion, concentration, and worry in an analysis of naturally occurring facial expressions of AmericansPaul Rozin
Department of Psychology and the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104 4196, USA
Emotion 3:68-75. 2003..Confusion is characterized principally by facial movements around the eyes and has many properties usually attributed to emotions. There was no evidence for lateralization of positive versus negative valenced states... - Food and life, pleasure and worry, among American college students: gender differences and regional similaritiesPaul Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104 6196, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:132-41. 2003..There were surprisingly few regional differences, virtually none if race and social class were taken into account. Gender was the strongest predictor of responses... - Stability of body image and body image dissatisfaction in American college students over about the last 15 yearsP Rozin
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6196, USA
Appetite 37:245-8. 2001..Possible accounts for this difference in results are discussed... - Religion and the morality of mentalityA B Cohen
Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict and Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 81:697-710. 2001..These religious differences were not related to differences in collectivistic (interdependent) and individualistic (independent) tendencies... - Perimenstrual chocolate craving. What happens after menopause?Julia M Hormes
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States of America
Appetite 53:256-9. 2009..The decrease is only 13.4% and thereby much smaller than a 38% drop predicted by a purely hormonal explanation, suggesting that female reproductive hormones are not the principal cause of perimenstrual chocolate craving... - Univariate and default standard unit biases in estimation of body weight and caloric contentAndrew B Geier
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, USA
J Exp Psychol Appl 15:153-62. 2009..PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)... - Unit bias. A new heuristic that helps explain the effect of portion size on food intakeAndrew B Geier
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Psychol Sci 17:521-5. 2006..We argue that unit bias is a general feature in human choice and discuss possible origins of this bias, including consumption norms... - Limits of symhedonia: the differential role of prior emotional attachment in sympathy and sympathetic joyEdward B Royzman
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Emotion 6:82-93. 2006..Study 7 found that both sympathy and symhedonia are weaker for nonclose (vs. close) others, but the disparity is significantly smaller for sympathy than for symhedonia... - Exploring Hindu Indian emotion expressions: evidence for accurate recognition by Americans and IndiansA Hejmadi
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6196, USA
Psychol Sci 11:183-7. 2000..Participants from both countries were quite accurate in identifying emotions correctly using both fixed-choice (65% correct, expected value of 9%) and free-response (61% correct, expected value close to zero) methods... - Body image across three generations of Americans: inter-family correlations, gender differences, and generation differencesJ M Ostovich
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Eat Weight Disord 9:186-93. 2004..Finally, we found significant inter-family correlations for BI and dieting for all groups except undergraduate females. We discuss these results within cultural and evolutionary theoretical frameworks... - Once in contact, always in contact: contagious essence and conceptions of purification in American and Hindu Indian childrenAhalya Hejmadi
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3604, USA
Dev Psychol 40:467-76. 2004..In keeping with Hindu culture, the Indian children responded significantly more strongly to stranger or cockroach contamination and, with increasing age, viewed contamination as more impervious to any kind of purification... - Experienced and remembered pleasure for meals: duration neglect but minimal peak, end (recency) or primacy effectsElizabeth Rode
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Appetite 49:18-29. 2007..The existence of duration neglect implies that, with respect to memories of a meal, small portions of a highly favored dish will have roughly the same memorial effect as large portions... - Odor and affect: individual differences in the impact of odor on liking for places, things and peopleA Wrzesniewski
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1109, USA
Chem Senses 24:713-21. 1999.... - Religion and unforgivable offensesAdam B Cohen
School of Science and Health, Philadelphia University, School of House Lane and Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144 5497, USA
J Pers 74:85-118. 2006..Differential endorsement of these reasons for nonforgiveness fully mediated Jew-Protestant differences in forgiveness of a plagiarism offense and a Holocaust offense... - Weighing discomfort in college age American females: incidence and causesAndrew B Geier
University of Pennsylvania, United States
Appetite 51:173-7. 2008....