Selective Moral Leniency Toward Culturally Embedded Animal Exploitation: The Role of Identity and Ideology
Social Psychological and Personality Science
Published online on July 23, 2026
Abstract
Social Psychological and Personality Science, Ahead of Print.
Moral concern for animals is widely endorsed, yet people appear to make exceptions for practices of animal exploitation rooted in their own cultural traditions. In two studies (totalN= 1,318), we tested whether support for culturally embedded practices ...
Moral concern for animals is widely endorsed, yet people appear to make exceptions for practices of animal exploitation rooted in their own cultural traditions. In two studies (totalN= 1,318), we tested whether support for culturally embedded practices ...