The moral consideration of artificial entities: a literature review

J Harris, JR Anthis - Science and engineering ethics, 2021 - Springer
Ethicists, policy-makers, and the general public have questioned whether artificial entities
such as robots warrant rights or other forms of moral consideration. There is little synthesis of …

The most human bot: Female gendering increases humanness perceptions of bots and acceptance of AI

S Borau, T Otterbring, S Laporte… - Psychology & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Companies have repeatedly launched Artificial Intelligence (AI) products such as intelligent
chatbots and robots with female names, voices, and bodies. Previous research posits that …

Moral character in person perception

GP Goodwin - Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding how people form impressions of others is a key goal of social cognition
research. Past theories have posited that two fundamental dimensions—warmth and …

Why people love animals yet continue to eat them

J Piazza - Why we love and exploit animals, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
We, as humans, are deeply fascinated by animals from an early age yet we also in many
ways exploit animals. Eating animals is a particular “blind spot” in our ethical thinking about …

Consumer perceptions of conventional and alternative protein sources: A mixed-methods approach with meal and product framing

C Possidónio, M Prada, J Graça, J Piazza - Appetite, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding consumer perceptions of meat alternatives is key to facilitating a shift toward
more sustainable food consumption. Importantly, these perceptions may vary according to …

Unpalatable truths: Commitment to eating meat is associated with strategic ignorance of food-animal minds

S Leach, J Piazza, S Loughnan, RM Sutton, I Kapantai… - Appetite, 2022 - Elsevier
Animal minds are of central importance to debates about their rights and welfare. Remaining
ignorant of evidence that animals have minds is therefore likely to facilitate their …

When meat gets personal, animals' minds matter less: Motivated use of intelligence information in judgments of moral standing

J Piazza, S Loughnan - Social Psychological and …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Why are many Westerners outraged by dog meat, but comfortable with pork? This is
particularly puzzling, given strong evidence that both species are highly intelligent. We …

Tree‐huggers versus human‐lovers: Anthropomorphism and dehumanization predict valuing nature over outgroups

J Rottman, CR Crimston, S Syropoulos - Cognitive science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Previous examinations of the scope of moral concern have focused on aggregate
attributions of moral worth. However, because trade‐offs exist in valuing different kinds of …

[HTML][HTML] Changing minds about minds: Evidence that people are too sceptical about animal sentience

S Leach, RM Sutton, K Dhont, KM Douglas… - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Our relationships with other animals are governed by how we view their capacity for
sentience and suffering. However, there is currently little agreement as to whether people's …

Utilitarianism for animals, Kantianism for people? Harming animals and humans for the greater good.

L Caviola, G Kahane, JAC Everett… - Journal of …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Most people hold that it is wrong to sacrifice some humans to save a greater number of
humans. Do people also think that it is wrong to sacrifice some animals to save a greater …