Food and Culture: Psychology Perspective

Explore diverse food practices through the lens of religio-cultural contexts, social motives, group identity, status signaling, and disease avoidance. Understand essentialist beliefs in dietary laws, variations influenced by biological and cultural factors, and how traditions persist across generations, emphasizing purity and contamination. This training consolidates psychological and cross-cultural perspectives to examine food's role in shaping social cohesion, hierarchy, and cultural...