Hereās a collection of additional sources which may be useful for people interested in learning more aboutāor doing further work related toāthe questions listed at this end of this post, and perhaps especially question 1. (These sources were mentioned by commenters on a draft of this post, and Iāve only read the abstracts of them myself.)
Hereās a collection of additional sources which may be useful for people interested in learning more aboutāor doing further work related toāthe questions listed at this end of this post, and perhaps especially question 1. (These sources were mentioned by commenters on a draft of this post, and Iāve only read the abstracts of them myself.)
Empathy and compassion toward other species decrease with evolutionary divergence time
Welcoming Robots into the Moral Circle: A Defence of Ethical Behaviourism
How we value animals: the psychology of speciesism
Misanthropy, idealism and attitudes towards animals
Some animals are more equal than others: Validation of a new scale to measure how attitudes to animals depend on species and human purpose of use
What are Animals? Why Anthropomorphism is Still Not a Scientific Approach to Behavior
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat
Factors Influencing Human Attitudes to Animals and Their Welfare
Update To Partial Retraction Of Animal Value And Neuron Number