I’m unsure about the methodology of that experiment—it seems that the survey asked people to list details about their pet first, which could potentially ‘pre-load’ a fond mental image of a particular childhood pet and affect later answers, even though such a mental image would never arise when someone was going about their day-to-day meat shopping.
Nevertheless, the results are interesting and I think that more work needs to be done in this area.
Thanks, that’s a good find.
I’m unsure about the methodology of that experiment—it seems that the survey asked people to list details about their pet first, which could potentially ‘pre-load’ a fond mental image of a particular childhood pet and affect later answers, even though such a mental image would never arise when someone was going about their day-to-day meat shopping.
Nevertheless, the results are interesting and I think that more work needs to be done in this area.