Paul Rozin
Paul Rozin ( born August 3, 1936 in New York City ) is a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of numerous publications on food psychology.
Rozin attended the University of Chicago in 1961 and earned a doctorate in biology and psychology at Harvard University.
Since 1963 he teaches psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Since the 1980s, part of a special interest in the human food selection. He explores, inter alia, the development of food preferences and aversions -, taste preferences, pleasure and disgust, and has published numerous technical papers. He is considered a leading scientist in the field of enjoyment and Ekelforschung in the USA.
Publications (selection )
- Towards a Psychology of Food Choice, Danone Chair Publication 1998, ISBN 2-930151-06-4
- Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, CR: Disgust, in: M. Lewis and J. Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions, New York 1993, pp. 575-594
- Rozin, P., & Nemeroff, CJ: The laws of sympathetic magic: A psychological analysis of similarity and contagion, in: J. Stigler, inter alia, (Eds.): Cultural Psychology: Essays on comparative human development (pp. 205-232 ), Cambridge 1990
- Rozin, P., among others: Attitudes to food and the role of food in life: Comparisons of Flemish Belgium, France, Japan and the United States, in: Appetite, No. 33 (1999 ), pp. 163-180.