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6. Criticism

  • attitudes towards foods are clearly a product of more than just social learning alone. For instance, early diets evolutionary explanation suggests that our preference for fatty foods is a direct result of an evolved adaption.
  • Streigel-Moore et al. (1995) found that there was a greater 'drive for thinness' among black girls than among white girls.
  • Rozin et al. (1999) claim that food functions differently in the minds and lives of people from different cultures. They found that in four different countries females consistently ate more like Americans than the French (food choices based on taste)