Themen für Bachelorarbeiten

Beschreibung: Vegetarian and vegan diets are increasing in Switzerland and other Western countries. People adopt these diets for various reasons, including those related to health, the environment, and animal rights. However, many vegetarians eventually go back to eating animals. The goal of this thesis is to do a literature review of studies on vegetarian backsliders to better understand the reasons that people do not sustain a vegetarian diet.
Kontakt: Christopher Hopwood, E-Mail

Beschreibung: Research on why people eat or avoid meat has used a wide range of methods, from validated scales (e.g., MEMI/VEMI, 4Ns) through qualitative open-ended questions to forced-choice designs and momentary assessments of daily eating motivations. Whether these approaches converge on the same set of motivations or produce systematically different taxonomies depending on the method is an open question. This thesis will review how reasons for and against meat consumption have been assessed across the literature, compare findings across methodological approaches, and evaluate how measurement decisions may impact what we know about dietary motivations.
Kontakt: Maxim Trenkenschuh, E-Mail

Beschreibung: In recent years there has been growing interest in understanding public policy support, particularly around climate change mitigation and related topics. While many studies focus on distal predictors, such as individual differences in political orientation or values, some researcher has started to examine more proximal predictors of policy support. These are often called ?policy-specific beliefs? and concern concepts like perceived fairness, effectiveness, or intrusiveness of specific policies. The goal of this thesis is to 1) review this literature, 2) provide some organizing structure around concepts, and 3) critically evaluate the strength and implications of this research (e.g., to what extent those beliefs depend on distal predictors).
Kontakt: Sandro Jenni, E-Mail