Journal
FOODS
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/foods9020172
Keywords
disgust; emotions; entomophagy; sociolinguistics; food choice; mirror neurons
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- Andong National University's Insect Industry R&D Center via the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Education [NRF-2018R1A6A1A03024862]
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It is known that idioms, proverbs, and slogans can become integrated into feelings like irritation, contemptuous attitudes, and even anger and disgust. Idioms making reference to insects, spiders, and other invertebrates occur in all languages, but they convey mostly negative content in people of Western cultural orientation. By analyzing a subgroup of insect and spider idioms related to food, eating, and digestion, the authors suggest that mirror neurons are activated in people that are exposed to the largely unfavorable content of such idioms. This could then lead the listener of such idioms to adopt the kind of negative attitude towards insects that is expressed in the idioms and to project it towards edible species.
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