When Closing the Human-Animal Divide Expands Moral Concern: The Importance of Framing
When Closing the Human-Animal Divide Expands Moral Concern: The Importance of Framing
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DOI：
10.1177/1948550611425106
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发表时间：
2012-07-01
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Hodson, Gordon
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作者：
Bastian, Brock;Costello, Kimberly;Hodson, Gordon
人类和动物有许多相似之处。通过三项研究，作者证明了这些相似性的框架对于人们对他人的道德关怀具有重大影响。将动物与人类进行比较可以扩大道德关注并减少物种歧视；然而，将人类与动物进行比较似乎不会产生这些相同的效果。作者在关注构建人类与动物相似性的自然倾向（研究 1）并遵循框架的实验归纳（研究 2 和 3）时发现了这些差异。在研究 3 中，作者将关注点从其他动物扩展到边缘化的人类外群体，证明人与动物的相似性框架也会对道德关注扩展到其他人类产生影响。作者通过参考先前研究框架对相似性判断和自我他人比较的影响的研究来解释这些发现，并讨论它们与促进动物福利和扩大道德关注的关系。
Humans and animals share many similarities. Across three studies, the authors demonstrate that the framing of these similarities has significant consequences for people's moral concern for others. Comparing animals to humans expands moral concern and reduces speciesism; however, comparing humans to animals does not appear to produce these same effects. The authors find these differences when focusing on natural tendencies to frame human-animal similarities (Study 1) and following experimental induction of framings (Studies 2 and 3). In Study 3, the authors extend their focus from other animals to marginalized human outgroups, demonstrating that human-animal similarity framing also has consequences for the extension of moral concern to other humans. The authors explain these findings by reference to previous work examining the effects of framing on judgments of similarity and self-other comparisons and discuss them in relation to the promotion of animal welfare and the expansion of moral concern.