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| Title |
The role of meat consumption in the denial of moral status and mind to meat animals
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Appetite, May 2010
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.appet.2010.05.043 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Steve Loughnan, Nick Haslam, Brock Bastian |
| Abstract |
People enjoy eating meat but disapprove of harming animals. One resolution to this conflict is to withdraw moral concern from animals and deny their capacity to suffer. To test this possibility, we asked participants to eat dried beef or dried nuts and then indicate their moral concern for animals and judge the moral status and mental states of a cow. Eating meat reduced the perceived obligation to show moral concern for animals in general and the perceived moral status of the cow. It also indirectly reduced the ascription of mental states necessary to experience suffering. People may escape the conflict between enjoying meat and concern for animal welfare by perceiving animals as unworthy and unfeeling. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 86 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 14 | 16% |
| United States | 14 | 16% |
| Canada | 4 | 5% |
| Germany | 3 | 3% |
| Norway | 3 | 3% |
| Finland | 2 | 2% |
| Belgium | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| China | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 9 | 10% |
| Unknown | 34 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 61 | 71% |
| Scientists | 19 | 22% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 521 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Finland | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 504 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 108 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 95 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 76 | 15% |
| Researcher | 35 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 4% |
| Other | 65 | 12% |
| Unknown | 123 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 154 | 30% |
| Social Sciences | 57 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 48 | 9% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 28 | 5% |
| Environmental Science | 22 | 4% |
| Other | 78 | 15% |
| Unknown | 134 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 305. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 March 2024.
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#114,967
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Outputs from Appetite
#61
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#248
of 104,945 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Appetite
#1
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Altmetric has tracked 25,765,370 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,838 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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