Research suggests that animals’ capacity for agency, experience, and benevolence predict beliefs about their moral treatment. Four studies built on this work by examining how fine‐grained information about animals’ traits and behaviours (e.g., can store food for later vs. can use tools) shifted moral beliefs about eating and harming animals. The information that most strongly affected moral beliefs was related to secondary emotions (e.g., can feel nostalgia), morality (e.g., will share food with others), empathy (e.g., can feel others pain), social connections (e.g., will look for deceased family members), and moral patiency (e.g., can feel pain). In addition, information affected moral judgements in line with how it affected superordinate representations about animals’ capacity for experience/feeling but not agency/thinking. The results provide a fine‐grained outline of how, and why, information about animals’ traits and behaviours informs moral judgements.

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什么时候吃动物是错误的？不同动物特征和行为的相关性

研究表明，动物的能动性、经验和仁慈的能力可以预测对其道德待遇的信念。四项研究建立在这项工作的基础上，通过检查有关动物特征和行为的细粒度信息（例如，可以储存食物以备日后使用还是可以使用工具）如何改变关于进食和伤害动物的道德信念。对道德信念影响最大的信息与次要情绪（例如，可以感到怀旧）、道德（例如，会与他人分享食物）、同理心（例如，可以感受到他人的痛苦）、社会关系（例如，会寻找已故的家庭成员）和道德耐心（例如，可以感到疼痛）。此外，信息会影响道德判断，这与它如何影响关于动物的经验/感觉能力而非能动性/思维能力的上级表征一致。