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- Olsson, Viktoria, et al.
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Meat that has been frozen and thawed : compatible with high gastronomic standards?
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A long-term strategic work entailing animal- and environmental consideration has led to added values in the Swedish meat production. Today, meat handling may comprise logistics that include storage of frozen raw material to even out geographical and seasonal variations in demand. This is the case for the culturally significant Christmas ham that can be preserved through freezing before preparation just in time for the festive season. The formation of ice crystals during freezing damages the cell structure and concentrates the solutes in the meat (Leygonie et al. 2012; Bao et al., 2021). Improper thawing can result in quality losses, such as texture and colour changes, water loss, and denaturation and oxidation of myofibrillar proteins. This affects the eating quality and nutritional value of the meat negatively. At Kristianstad University, the effect of air- compared to microwave thawing was recently investigated in a pilot study and the water-holding ability was shown to be affected by thawing method (Nilsson & Lilja, 2021). As meat is very resource-demanding, all production processes must be optimized to reduce energy consumption and waste. Further, innovative preservation techniques like high-pressure processing (HPP), by which a product is nonthermally treated at high pressures by means of a liquid transmitter, can be applied to improve product quality. There are scientifically unaddressed questions regarding the effect of these technologies on sensory perception and consumer acceptance. Applied, challengedriven research is also lacking. We want to address this in a new project founded by the Knowledge Foundation to investigate if meat that has been frozen and thawed can be compatible with high gastronomic standards.
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- Rachev, Nikolay R., et al.
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Actively Open-Minded Thinking, Bullshit Receptivity, and Susceptibility to Framing Evaluating the Dual-Process Account in North America and Bulgaria
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Journal of Psychological Assessment. - : Hogrefe Publishing Group. - 1015-5759 .- 2151-2426. ; 38:6, s. 440-451
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The framing effect occurs when different presentations of the same problem lead to predictably different preferences. The dual-process framework of higher cognition assumes that the effect violates rational principles, but alternative accounts and recent evidence have contested this interpretation. Contributing to this debate, we tested the dual-process assumption by investigating associations between susceptibility to framing and the willingness and ability to think in line with rational norms, conceptualized as actively open-minded thinking and pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity. We conducted two online studies among North American (N = 259) and Bulgarian (N = 248) university students and administered several framing problems within-subjects, presumably necessary for the associations to appear. Confirmatory factor analyses showed that susceptibility to framing was associated with decreased actively open-minded thinking and increased bullshit receptivity in both sites. Exploratory multi-group analyses demonstrated partial strong invariance and showed that the findings generalize across both sites in terms of direction and partially in terms of magnitude. These results broadly support the dual-process account of the framing effect. Our study further contributes to adapting existing measures to a novel setting and expanding the findings across borders and populations.
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- Ruggeri, Kai, et al.
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The general fault in our fault lines
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nature Human Behaviour. - : Springer Nature. - 2397-3374. ; 5:10, s. 1369-1380
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Pervading global narratives suggest that political polarization is increasing, yet the accuracy of such group meta-perceptions has been drawn into question. A recent US study suggests that these beliefs are inaccurate and drive polarized beliefs about out-groups. However, it also found that informing people of inaccuracies reduces those negative beliefs. In this work, we explore whether these results generalize to other countries. To achieve this, we replicate two of the original experiments with 10,207 participants across 26 countries. We focus on local group divisions, which we refer to as fault lines. We find broad generalizability for both inaccurate meta-perceptions and reduced negative motive attribution through a simple disclosure intervention. We conclude that inaccurate and negative group meta-perceptions are exhibited in myriad contexts and that informing individuals of their misperceptions can yield positive benefits for intergroup relations. Such generalizability highlights a robust phenomenon with implications for political discourse worldwide.
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