Autori
Zezza, Annalisa
Demaria, Federica

Titolo
Scientific information and cognitive bias in the case of New Breeding Techniques: exploring Millennials behaviour in Italy
Periodico
Rivista di economia agraria
Anno: 2022 - Volume: 77 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 41 - Pagina finale: 60

The paper explores consumers’ acceptance of New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) in the agri-food sector. Our main research question concerns the role of infor-mation in shaping consumers’ attitude towards genetically modified food and new breeding techniques in agricultural production. To this extent, we use a Multinomial Logit Model to analyse changes or confirmations of prior opinions on food safety con-cerns and environmental risks associated with modern biotechnologies once scientific information has been provided. Our findings confirm the Bayesian hypothesis accord-ing to which people combine their prior belief with new information to converge sci-entific information in the case of food safety. We also found a higher probability of confirmation bias, with people less willing to change their prior beliefs, when environ-mental risks are concerned



SICI: 0035-6190(2022)77:2<41:SIACBI>2.0.ZU;2-#
Testo completo: https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/rea/article/view/13676/12945

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