Alex Carter
@alexandercarter.bsky.social
Psychology PhD Student at the University of Exeter | Researcher of social and moral development
Reposted by Alex Carter
How do some children learn to eat some animals while continuing to care for others? New research suggests that this is caused by resolving the conflict between moral values and human cultural practices.
Read more in #SPPS: https://ow.ly/81NL50XHCS7
Read more in #SPPS: https://ow.ly/81NL50XHCS7
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
How do some children learn to eat some animals while continuing to care for others? New research suggests that this is caused by resolving the conflict between moral values and human cultural practices.
Read more in #SPPS: https://ow.ly/81NL50XHCS7
Read more in #SPPS: https://ow.ly/81NL50XHCS7
Reposted by Alex Carter
Children love animals. How do they turn into meat-eating adults? We investigate how children trade off their moral values with the importance of food for human traditions. The great Alex Carter's first PhD paper now out in SPPS: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #socialpsyc #devpsy #philsky
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Children love animals. How do they turn into meat-eating adults? We investigate how children trade off their moral values with the importance of food for human traditions. The great Alex Carter's first PhD paper now out in SPPS: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #socialpsyc #devpsy #philsky