{"id":1144,"date":"2026-10-16T16:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/?page_id=1144"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:23:31","slug":"mia-patel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/mia-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mia Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1145\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/files\/2026\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-10-16-at-4.19.56-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mia is a Psychology graduate from the University of Kent who completed a placement year as a research assistant, studying human-animal relations with Dr. Kristof Dhont. Her work focused on exploring plant-based messaging and the political influences of animal product consumption. During her placement and in her final year as an undergraduate, Mia developed and assisted with research examining whether plant-based messaging positively affects taste perceptions of plant-based meat alternatives. Her current research focuses on adapting and strengthening behavioural interventions that target the reduction of animal-product consumption.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><br \/>\nIoannidou, M., Harlow, G., Patel, M., Leach, S., Hodson, G., &amp; Dhont, K. (2026). Why the right resists veg(etari)anism: Ideological commitment to consuming animal products. Food Quality and Preference, 136, 105769<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mia is a Psychology graduate from the University of Kent who completed a placement year as a research assistant, studying human-animal relations with Dr. Kristof Dhont. Her work focused on exploring plant-based messaging and the political influences of animal product consumption. During her placement and in her final year as an undergraduate, Mia developed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84686,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}