为食用动物辩护的理由因年龄而异。
Reasoning to Justify Eating Animals Varies With Age.
作者信息
McGuire Luke, Bagus Tina, Carter Alexander G, Fry Emma, Faber Nadira S
机构信息
University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt, Germany.
出版信息
Child Dev. 2025 May-Jun;96(3):953-965. doi: 10.1111/cdev.14217. Epub 2025 Feb 1.
The present study examined the justifications used by children, adolescents, and adults to justify eating animals. Children (n = 100, M = 9.82, SD = 0.77, female n = 49) as compared to adolescents (n = 76, M = 14.0, SD = 1.62, female n = 36) and adults (n = 113, M = 44.1, SD = 14.4, female n = 54) were more ambivalent or opposed to eating animals, and they showed a distinct reasoning pattern. Children relied less on arguments about meat eating being natural or with to humane slaughter practices. These findings align with recent theoretical perspectives that reasoning may be used to counter cognitive dissonance arising from knowledge of food production systems.
本研究考察了儿童、青少年和成年人用来为食用动物行为辩护的理由。与青少年（n = 76，M = 14.0，标准差 = 1.62，女性n = 36）和成年人（n = 113，M = 44.1，标准差 = 14.4，女性n = 54）相比，儿童（n = 100，M = 9.82，标准差 = 0.77，女性n = 49）对食用动物更为矛盾或反对，且他们表现出一种独特的推理模式。儿童较少依赖关于肉食是自然的或人道屠宰做法的论据。这些发现与最近的理论观点一致，即推理可能被用来应对因了解食物生产系统而产生的认知失调。
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