Food is fundamental to human experience and has interested social scientists in general, and psychologists in particular, for decades. As early as the 1940s, Abraham Maslow suggested that food was essential to understanding human motivations and needs. Subsequently, food-related practices and behaviors became fertile area of study, drawing in important issues of culture, behavior and nutrition. More recently, previously neglected environmental factors related to food have framed investigations of provisioning and eating behaviors. The list of recommended readings presented here for “Food, Psychology, and the Environment” represent the breadth of approaches in psychological understanding and investigation into food practice with consideration to personal, social, and environmental consequences of consumption related behaviors. …
February 21, 2014
Food, Psychology, and the Environment
Christine C Caruso
Christine C. Caruso is a graduate of the Environmental Psychology program of the City University of New York Graduate Center, where she concentrated on Food Studies. Dr Caruso’s research focuses on food environments in low-income urban communities, as well as urban health, social justice, gender and sustainability. Her current research examines current and recent historical cultural experiences of discursive productions of “food deserts” across policy, advocacy, scholarship and popular media. She currently resides in Queens, NYC, where she continues to work to expand access to healthy and sustainably sourced foods through the development of Queens’ first mobile cooperative food market.
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