Psychology Over the course of your life, attitudes shift. As a teen, you might be a complete omnivore, diving into every barbecue with abandon. As a young adult, you might hear economic arguments against meat production and cut back on the amount of meat you eat. Still later, you might hear about the health benefits of a plant-based diet and give up meat altogether. Your attitudes are not just there to be changed, of course. Your attitudes also help you decide how to act. Your attitude.
Psychology toward eating meat affects the foods you buy, cook and eat.An interesting paper in the June 2011 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Dolores Albarracin and Ian Handley explores the effects of wanting to do something on your attitudes. This research suggests that wanting to do things makes it easier for you to think about your attitudes but harder to change them.
Part of the price has been exacted when evolutionary psychologists had to play the game and, in order to benefit from it, went along with the media image, with its superficiality, distortions, and ideological overtones. This might have seemed cheap but now another part of the price is exacted when similar ideologically loaded simplifications and distortions are used not in favour but against evolutionary psychology. Still another part of the price is paid within the field itself which has, to some extent, come to imitate its own media image.
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