Abstract The interest for the potential introduction of insects in the human diet is progressively increasing and several benefits for both human health and the environment have been hypothesised. However, especially in Western Countries, this trend could be jeopardized by the aversion that people show for insects as food. In the present paper, we study the impact of food neo-phobia and disgust on the intention to eat insect based food, and we look at how disgust is related to implicit attitude towards insects. Results show that both food neo-phobia and disgust make independent contributions to the intention to eat insects, and the explanatory power of disgust is considerably higher. Moreover, a significant effect of implicit attitude on disgust and an indirect effect of implicit attitude on intention mediated by disgust have been found. Implications for attempts to encourage people to incorporate insect-based foods into their diet are discussed, with special reference to the role of implicit association in determining the disgust reaction.

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了解西方人对吃昆虫的厌恶：食物新恐惧症和隐性联想的作用

摘要 对人类饮食中潜在引入昆虫的兴趣正在逐渐增加，并且已经假设对人类健康和环境有若干好处。然而，特别是在西方国家，这种趋势可能会因人们对昆虫作为食物的厌恶而受到损害。在本文中，我们研究了食物新恐惧症和厌恶对食用昆虫类食物的意图的影响，并研究了厌恶与对昆虫的内隐态度之间的关系。结果表明，食物新恐惧症和厌恶对吃昆虫的意图都有独立的贡献，厌恶的解释力要高得多。此外，内隐态度对厌恶的显着影响和内隐态度对由厌恶介导的意图的间接影响已被发现。