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Rozin is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty
Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania since 1997 as well as
the Co-Director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical
Conflict since 1998. His research interests in the area of cultural
psychology are acquisitions of likes and dislikes for foods, nature
and development of the magical belief in contagion, cultural evolution
of disgust, ambivalence to animal foods, lay conception of risk of
infection and toxic effects of foods, interaction of moral and health
factors in concerns about risks, relation between people’s desires
to have desires and their actual desires, acquisition of culture,
nature of cuisine, and cultural evolution. He has researched his interests
in the USA, France, Japan, and India. |
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Diet,
Science & The Pleasure of Eating
Paul Rozin
Wednesday-Sunday March
13-17, 2002
Thurman J. White Forum Conference Center (OCCE)
University of Oklahoma campus
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this seminar we will talk about the psychology of food, our personal
and social relationship to food and how we got here – the interaction
of biology, culture and individual experience. Using the "oat
bran as the ultimate health food" craze, we will also examine
how to think critically about diet and health – how to examine
claims about food and how to separate the science from the public
relations. We will talk about body image and definitions of beauty.
Finally, we will talk about other ways of relating to food – specifically
how we might learn from the French to take pleasure in what we
eat.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
Nomads of the Long Bow: The Siriono of Eastern Bolivia,
Allan R. Holmberg
Course Packet
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