João Graça
@joaograca.bsky.social
Assistant prof @unigroningen.bsky.social
Communication | Psychology | Program design and evaluation | Sustainability transitions (social/environmental)
Communication | Psychology | Program design and evaluation | Sustainability transitions (social/environmental)
Reposted by João Graça
📣 Speaker Announcement: We look forward to hearing about how (the lack of) moral concern for animals develops from an early age and across the lifespan”
Join us at this year’s PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk
#phairconference2025 #moralpsychology
Join us at this year’s PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk
#phairconference2025 #moralpsychology
May 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
📣 Speaker Announcement: We look forward to hearing about how (the lack of) moral concern for animals develops from an early age and across the lifespan”
Join us at this year’s PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk
#phairconference2025 #moralpsychology
Join us at this year’s PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 (July 2-5) in Edinburgh: phair2025.co.uk
#phairconference2025 #moralpsychology
Reposted by João Graça
Most people enjoy meat—but rarely think about the animals behind it.
So what happens when they do make that connection?
🐖 If you're curious, check out our new study:
"‘Meating’ the animal and moral emotions"
🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
🧵👇 (1/10)
#MoralPsychology #MeatParadox #AnimalCruelty
So what happens when they do make that connection?
🐖 If you're curious, check out our new study:
"‘Meating’ the animal and moral emotions"
🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
🧵👇 (1/10)
#MoralPsychology #MeatParadox #AnimalCruelty
April 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Most people enjoy meat—but rarely think about the animals behind it.
So what happens when they do make that connection?
🐖 If you're curious, check out our new study:
"‘Meating’ the animal and moral emotions"
🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
🧵👇 (1/10)
#MoralPsychology #MeatParadox #AnimalCruelty
So what happens when they do make that connection?
🐖 If you're curious, check out our new study:
"‘Meating’ the animal and moral emotions"
🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
🧵👇 (1/10)
#MoralPsychology #MeatParadox #AnimalCruelty
Reposted by João Graça
Seminal study on how the world's population could sustainably feed itself - the EAT-Lancet study - recommended shift away from meat to more plan- based diet
It faced fierce backlash
We now know that backlash was fomented by PR company paid by the meat industry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It faced fierce backlash
We now know that backlash was fomented by PR company paid by the meat industry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Seminal study on how the world's population could sustainably feed itself - the EAT-Lancet study - recommended shift away from meat to more plan- based diet
It faced fierce backlash
We now know that backlash was fomented by PR company paid by the meat industry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It faced fierce backlash
We now know that backlash was fomented by PR company paid by the meat industry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by João Graça
Our new animal #morality / #speciesism paper shows children deem it more morally wrong to eat meat than adults. They don't show (yet) the cognitive dissonance reducing reasoning about factory farming we adults use.
#psychscisky #socialpsyc #moralPhil
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#psychscisky #socialpsyc #moralPhil
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
The present study examined the justifications used by children, adolescents, and adults to justify eating animals. Children (n = 100, Mage = 9.82, SD = 0.77, female n = 49) as compared to adolescents...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Our new animal #morality / #speciesism paper shows children deem it more morally wrong to eat meat than adults. They don't show (yet) the cognitive dissonance reducing reasoning about factory farming we adults use.
#psychscisky #socialpsyc #moralPhil
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#psychscisky #socialpsyc #moralPhil
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by João Graça
🔥 We are now welcoming submissions for the PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 in Edinburgh! 🔥
We are inviting contributions in four different formats: Symposia, Standard Talks, Blitz Presentations, & Posters.
Read the call for proposals and the submission guidelines here: PHAIR2025.co.uk
We are inviting contributions in four different formats: Symposia, Standard Talks, Blitz Presentations, & Posters.
Read the call for proposals and the submission guidelines here: PHAIR2025.co.uk
December 7, 2024 at 9:11 AM
🔥 We are now welcoming submissions for the PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025 in Edinburgh! 🔥
We are inviting contributions in four different formats: Symposia, Standard Talks, Blitz Presentations, & Posters.
Read the call for proposals and the submission guidelines here: PHAIR2025.co.uk
We are inviting contributions in four different formats: Symposia, Standard Talks, Blitz Presentations, & Posters.
Read the call for proposals and the submission guidelines here: PHAIR2025.co.uk
Reposted by João Graça
"Meating of the Minds: Who Denies Animal Mind in Response to the Meat Paradox?"
New paper in PHAIR by Tan, Bastian, & Smillie exploring individual differences in the meat paradox.
phairsociety.org/2024/12/02/p...
New paper in PHAIR by Tan, Bastian, & Smillie exploring individual differences in the meat paradox.
phairsociety.org/2024/12/02/p...
PHAIR paper alert: “Meating of the Minds: Who Denies Animal Mind in Response to the Meat Paradox?”
New PHAIR paper by Tan et al. (2024) exploring individual differences in the meat paradox.
phairsociety.org
December 2, 2024 at 4:03 PM
"Meating of the Minds: Who Denies Animal Mind in Response to the Meat Paradox?"
New paper in PHAIR by Tan, Bastian, & Smillie exploring individual differences in the meat paradox.
phairsociety.org/2024/12/02/p...
New paper in PHAIR by Tan, Bastian, & Smillie exploring individual differences in the meat paradox.
phairsociety.org/2024/12/02/p...