Folk judgments of animal moral standing

Jared Piazza

Chapter 15 in Research Handbook on Social Judgment, 2026, pp 245-271 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: How people perceive the moral standing of animals has far-reaching implications for how animals are treated. The present chapter reviews research into the folk psychology of animal moral standing. I consider how moral standing has been defined by philosophers and operationalized by psychologists, review the range of attributional dimensions that have been shown to impact on judgments of animals’ moral standing, explore how the instrumental use of animals relates to categorization and motivational processes that alter moral-standing judgments, and conclude by presenting some promising directions for promoting moral concern for animals.

Keywords: Animals; Moral Standing; Judgments; Mind Attribution; Motivated Cognition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035332533
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