Why we love and exploit animals : bridging insights from academia and advocacy./ edited by Kristof Dhont and Gordon Hodson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dhont, Kristof, editor.

Hodson, Gordon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 353 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2020.

Biography/History:

Kristof Dhont, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Kent, UK, and Director of SHARKLab, studying human intergroup and human-animal relations. He investigates the psychological factors underpinning speciesism, racism, and sexism and serves as Associate Editor (Group Processes & Intergroup Relations) and Consulting Editor (European Journal of Personality). Gordon Hodson, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Brock University, Canada. His research interests include prejudice, dehumanization and speciesism, ideology, and intergroup contact. He is an Editor-in-Chief (European Review of Social Psychology) and Associate Editor (Group Processes & Intergroup Relations). He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Summary:

"This unique book brings together research and theorizing on human-animal relations, animal advocacy, and the factors underlying exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Why do we both love and exploit animals? Assembling some of the world's leading academics and with insights and experiences gleaned from those on the front lines of animal advocacy, this pioneering collection breaks new ground, synthesizing scientific perspectives and empirical findings. The authors show the complexities and paradoxes in human-animal relations and reveal the factors shaping compassionate versus exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Exploring topical issues such as meat consumption, intensive farming, speciesism, and effective animal advocacy, this book demonstrates how we both value and devalue animals, how we can address animal suffering, and how our thinking about animals is connected to our thinking about human intergroup relations and the dehumanization of human groups. This is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences interested in human-animal relations, and will also strongly appeal to members of animal rights organizations, animal rights advocates, policy makers, and charity workers."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Loving and exploiting animals : an introduction / Kristof Dhont, Gordon Hodson

The animal in me : understanding what brings us closer and pushes us away from other animals / Brock Bastian, Catherine E. Amiot

The psychology of speciesism / Kristof Dhont, Gordon Hodson, Ana C. Leite, Alina Salmen

Putting the "free" back in freedom : the failure and future of animal welfare science / Jessica Pierce

Devaluing animals, "animalistic" humans, and people who protect animals / Gordon Hodson, Kristof Dhont, Megan Earle

Kittens, pigs, rats, and apes : the psychology of animal metaphors / Nick Haslam, Elise Holland, Michelle Stratemeyer

Uncanny valley of the apes / Vanessa Woods, Brian Hare

Why people love animals yet continue to eat them / Jared Piazza

Featherless chickens and puppies that glow in the dark : moral heuristics and the concept of animal "naturalness" / Christopher J. Holden, Harold Herzog

Accomphshing the most good for animals / Jon Bockman

The meat paradox / Steve Loughnan, Thomas Davies

How we love and hurt animals : considering cognitive dissonance in young meat eaters / Hank Rothgerber

Humane hypocrisies : making killing acceptable / John Sorenson

The end of factory farming : changing hearts, minds, and the system / Gene Baur

Steakholders : how pragmatic strategies can make the animal protection movement more effective / Tobias Leenaert

Animals as social groups : an intergroup relations analysis of human-animal conflicts / Verónica Sevillano, Susan T. Fiske

The moral march to meatless meals : the scripted Hebrew meat prohibitions versus the unscripted path to becoming vegetarian or vegan / Paul Rozin, Matthew B. Ruby

The ground of animal ethics / Carol J. Adams, Matthew Calarco

So why do we love but exploit animals? Reflections and solutions / Gordon Hodson, Kristof Dhont.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-18142-4

1-351-18143-2

1-351-18144-0

9781351181440 (electronic book)

9781351181440

OCLC:

1127940253