Michalina Konstancja Marczak
Title
PhD
Last Name
Marczak
First name
Michalina Konstancja
Email
michalinakonstancja.marczak@unisg.ch
ORCID
Phone
+41 71 224 72 46
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Item type:Publication, What We Think Others Think and Do About Climate Change: A Multicountry Test of Pluralistic Ignorance and Public-Consensus Messaging(2025-05-22)Scopus© Citations 17 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Beyond climate anxiety: Development and validation of the inventory of climate emotions (ICE): A measure of multiple emotions experienced in relation to climate change(2023-12); Scopus© Citations 89 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Trolley Dilemma in Papua. Yali horticulturalists refuse to pull the lever(2020-04-01); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Mapping sweetness preference across the lifespan for culturally different societies(2018-08-01); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Dietary customs and food availability shape the preferences for basic tastes: A cross-cultural study among Polish, Tsimane' and Hadza societies(2017-05-09); Niemczyk, AgnieszkaBiological significance of food components suggests that preferences for basic tastes should be similar across cultures. On the other hand, cultural factors play an important role in diet and can consequently influence individual preference for food. To date, very few studies have compared basic tastes preferences among populations of very diverse environmental and cultural conditions, and research rather did not involve traditional populations for whom the biological significance of different food components might be the most pronounced. Hence, our study focused on basic taste preferences in three populations, covering a broad difference in diet due to environmental and cultural conditions, market availability, dietary habits and food acquirement: 1) a modern society (Poles, n ¼ 200), 2) forager-horticulturalists from Amazon/Bolivia (Tsimane', n ¼ 138), and 3) hunter-gatherers from Tanzania (Hadza, n ¼ 85). The preferences for basic tastes were measured with sprays containing supra-threshold levels of sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami taste solutions. We observed several interesting differences between participating societies. We found that Tsimane' and Polish participants liked the sweet taste more than other tastes, while Hadza participants liked salty and sour tastes more than the remaining tastes. Further, Polish people found bitter taste particularly aversive, which was not observed in the traditional societies. Interestingly, no cross-cultural differences were observed for relative liking of umami taste e it was rated closely to neutral by members of all participating societies. Additionally, Hadza showed a pattern to like basic tastes that are more common to their current diet than societies with access to different food sources. These findings demonstrate the impact of diet and market availability on preference for basic tastes.Type:journal article - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, AfroGrow: Co-Creating Living Labs for Sustainable Agroforestry and Climate Resilience Across Africa(2025-03-18)