Themen für Masterarbeiten

Beschreibung: Most research on eating motivations and meat consumption estimates associations averaged across people. But these averages may hide that some motivations matter a lot for some people and not at all for others. Understanding this variability is important: if the links between motivations and meat eating differ strongly across individuals, then interventions targeting a single motivation (e.g., health or ethics) may only work for a subset of people. This thesis will use daily diary data from the Swiss Eating Study (SwES) to estimate person-specific associations between eating motivations and meat consumption. Because the study includes multiple measurement bursts, it is also possible to test whether these individual differences are stable over time. Results would inform both theory on individual differences in dietary behavior and the design of more personalized interventions for meat reduction.
Kontakt: Maxim Trenkenschuh, E-Mail

Beschreibung: So far, most research around sustainability has focused on predictors of individual behavior. Less is known about what predicts support for policy reforms to promote sustainable system change. This gap is especially important in the area of food production and consumption (i.e., the food system). The aim of this thesis is to explore the predictive power of a large number of individual differences on support for an upcoming food system initiative in Switzerland (?Ernährungsinitiative?). The primary data for this project comes from an ongoing longitudinal study, assessing intentions to vote at multiple timepoints. It also provides data for many potential predictors of voting (e.g., personal diet, motives/values, political orientation). The goal is to find out what kinds of people tend to support or oppose this reform, which would inform theories about sustainable food system change more broadly.
Kontakt: Sandro Jenni, E-Mail