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Speciesism, generalized prejudice and perceptions of prejudiced others
- Abstract:
- Philosophers have argued there is a normative relationship between our attitudes towards animals (“speciesism”) and other prejudices, and psychological work suggests speciesism relies on similar psychological processes and motivations as those underlying other prejudices. But do laypeople perceive such a connection? We compared perceptions of a target who is high or low on speciesism with a target who is high or low on racism (Studies 1-2), sexism (Study 2), or homophobia (Study 3). We find that just like racists, sexists, and homophobes, speciesists were both evaluated more negatively and expected to hold more general prejudicial attitudes and ideologies (e.g. thought to be higher in SDO and more prejudiced in other ways). Our results suggest that laypeople seem intuitively aware of the connection between speciesism and ‘traditional’ forms of prejudice, inferring similar personality traits and general prejudicial attitudes from a speciesist just as they do from a racist, sexist, or homophobe.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1177/1368430218816962
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+ Wellcome Trust
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- Savulescu, J
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- Operational Infrastructure Support (OIS) Program
+ Victorian State Government
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- Savulescu, J
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- Operational Infrastructure Support (OIS) Program
+ Oxford Martin School
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- Funding agency for:
- Savulescu, J
- Faber, N
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- Operational Infrastructure Support (OIS) Program
- Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease
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- SAGE Publications
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- Group Processes and Intergroup Relations More from this journal
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 785-803
- Publication date:
- 2019-09-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-10-24
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1461-7188
- ISSN:
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1368-4302
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pubs:935882
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- © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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