The Secret Life Of Plants🌱<p>The role of moral disengagement and animal empathy in the meat paradox. <br>Die Rolle des moralischen Rückzugs und der tierischen <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Empathie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empathie</span></a> im Fleischparadox</p><p>Current levels of meat consumption are environmentally unsustainable and cause suffering to billions of animals each year. Researchers have sought to understand the psychological mechanisms driving people's meat consumption. Research suggests that having empathy towards animals may reduce a person's meat consumption, however, an empathic response does not always result in action (The “meat paradox”). It may be that some people ‘disengage’ from their animal related morality when consuming meat. The current study aimed to test whether <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/moraldisengagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moraldisengagement</span></a> mediated the relationship between <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/animalempathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animalempathy</span></a> and meat consumption.<br><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lauren-Camilleri-3/publication/341408268_The_role_of_moral_disengagement_and_animal_empathy_in_the_meat_paradox/links" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">researchgate.net/profile/Laure</span><span class="invisible">n-Camilleri-3/publication/341408268_The_role_of_moral_disengagement_and_animal_empathy_in_the_meat_paradox/links</span></a><br><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Cheeseparadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cheeseparadox</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Meatparadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meatparadox</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/4N" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4N</span></a></p>