Revisiting the Motivated Denial of Mind to Animals Used for Food: Replication Registered Report of Bastian et al. (2012)
Tyler P. Jacobs,
Meiying Wang,
Stefan Leach
et al.
Abstract:Bastian et al. (2012) argued that the meat paradox—caring for animals yet eating them—creates a tension between people’s moral standards (caring for animals) and their behavior (eating them) that can be resolved via mechanisms of motivated moral disengagement. One disengagement mechanism that is thought to play a central role is the denial of food-animal minds and therefore their status as moral patients. This idea has garnered substantial interest and has framed much of the psychological approach to meat cons… Show more
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