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How can ‘I’ make you empathize? Research on the influence of anthropomorphic design on against food waste
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“anthropomorphic design has been widely applied in products and services, establishing profound emotional bonds and promoting intimate consumer–product relationships [7,8,9,10,11,12]”
From Anthropomorphic Design in Mortality Salience Situations: Exploring Emotional and Non-Emotional Mechanisms Enhancing Consumer Purchase Intentions (2024) · cites this paper as [11]
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“Its uniqueness lies in its ability to reduce individual psychological burdens in a subtle yet effective manner by endowing products with human-like characteristics [7,11].”
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“The issue about reducing food waste has attracted wide attention in academia, researches showed that waste at the consumption level is the main source of food waste (Aschemann-Witzel et al., 2016; Stancu et al., 2016).”
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“Its uniqueness lies in its ability to reduce individual psychological burdens in a subtle yet effective manner by endowing products with human-like characteristics [7,11].”
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- Authors
- Luo, B., & Yan, J.
- Affiliations
- Hefei University of Technology (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Yan, Juanjuan
- Venue
- Current Psychology
- Published
- 2023-10-09
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 11394-11409
- ISSN
- 1046-1310 (ISSN-L)
- 1936-4733
- OpenAlex
- W4387435984
- Cited by
- 8
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4
- FWCI
- 1.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
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- Current Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- he Influence Mechanism of Social Network Structures on the Diffusion of Green Consumption Behavior (21YJA630066)
- the NSFC Basic Science Center Project (72188101)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Consumer Packaging Perceptions and Trends
- Keywords
- food waste, anthropomorphic design, empathy, visual design, self-construal, consumer intention, food waste reduction
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