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The Moral Standing of Animals: Towards a Psychology of Speciesism

open access: yesJournal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2019
We introduce and investigate the philosophical concept of ‘speciesism’ — the assignment of different moral worth based on species membership — as a psychological construct. In five studies, using both general population samples online and student samples,
Lucius Caviola, J. Everett, N. Faber
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social Dominance Orientation Connects Prejudicial Human-Human and Human-Animal Relations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Recent theorizing suggests that biases toward human outgroups may be related to biases toward (non-human) animals, and that individual differences in desire for group dominance and inequality may underlie associations between these biases.
Allen   +25 more
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The Anti-Speciesist Stance in J. M. Coetzee’s Novels: An Analysis of Animal-Standpoint

open access: yesLitera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023
Animal-standpoint criticism focuses on the way human rights are treated in literary texts. It is against speciesism, which is a kind of species-based discrimination which gives different values to different species and inevitably leads to a hierarchy ...
Kubilay Geçikli
doaj   +1 more source

Don’t Demean “Invasives”: Conservation and Wrongful Species Discrimination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
It is common for conservationists to refer to non-native species that have undesirable impacts on humans as “invasive”. We argue that the classification of any species as “invasive” constitutes wrongful discrimination.
Abbate, C. E., Fischer, Bob
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Speciesism [PDF]

open access: yesContexts, 2013
Speciesism, coined in the 1970s, means the implicit superiority of one species, usually humans, over all others. Sociologist Lisa Jean Moore discusses this term and how sociologists are primed to use the concept in teaching and research.
openaire   +1 more source

Moral Status, Speciesism, and Liao’s Genetic Account [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper offers several criticisms of the account of rightholding laid out in S. Matthew Liao’s recent paper “The Basis of Human Moral Status.” I argue that Liao’s account both does too much and too little: it grants rightholder status to those who may
Grau, Christopher
core   +1 more source

Human dignity, speciesism, and the value of life

open access: yesStudia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2016
This paper deals with a discussion concerning the value of life. Specifically, it addresses the idea of speciesism, a term coined by Peter Singer, whereby human life is endowed with special significance because of its membership in the species Homo ...
Grzegorz Hołub
doaj   +1 more source

Starry white trek: Science fiction and racial discourse [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2012
This article demonstrates that the science fiction’s visions of the future are not exempt from problems of rasism even when openly opposed it. Film and TV Star Trek production is commonly regarded as a significant example of courageous and effective ...
Krstić Predrag
doaj   +1 more source

Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (MARS) test finds Oscars so AnthropoScenic in contemporary animated films

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication
IntroductionAnimation transfers human races into animals, serving as a prime site for speciesism and racism.MethodsTesting this observation on recent examples, our quantitative/qualitative study delves into a nine-year (2016-2024) span of Oscar-nominated
Natalie Khazaal   +2 more
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Reducing Speciesism: An Intervention to Change People’s Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions

open access: yesAnthrozoos
Humans mistreating, exploiting, and abusing animals is a common problem in our society and is related to speciesism. Speciesism refers to when humans assign different worth to beings based on their species.
Nicole Banach, M. Stel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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