{"id":1467,"date":"2018-06-20T16:35:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2018-06-21T12:48:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T11:48:49","slug":"1467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2018\/06\/20\/1467\/","title":{"rendered":"People feeling threatened by vegetarianism care less about animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New research suggests that if people perceive the rise of vegetarianism as a threat to their way of life they are more likely to care less for some animals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University\u2019s School of Psychology and Brock University in Canada studied the impact of <strong>human supremacy beliefs and vegetarianism on whether people feel moral concern for animals<\/strong>, ranging from those normally considered to be pets, such as cats and dogs, through to those reared for eating, such as pigs and cows, and wild animals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/leitea\/\">Dr Ana Leite<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/dhontk\/\">Dr Kristof Dhont<\/a>, together with Professor Gordon Hodson from Brock University, demonstrated that <strong>stronger human supremacy beliefs and vegetarianism threat predicted the inclusion of fewer animals<\/strong> in individuals\u2019 moral circles over a reasonably large time interval.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/science\/18514\/people-who-feel-threatened-by-vegetarianism-more-likely-to-care-less-about-animals\">Kent News Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study, titled <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1002\/ejsp.2497\">&#8216;Longitudinal effects of human supremacy beliefs and vegetarianism threat on moral exclusion (vs. inclusion) of animals&#8217;<\/a> is published in the <em>European Journal of Social Psychology<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests that if people perceive the rise of vegetarianism as a threat to their way of life they are more likely to care &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2018\/06\/20\/1467\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55574,"featured_media":1468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}