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One question examined in the psychology of eating meat has been termed the meat paradox: "How can individuals care about animals, but also eat them?" [ 48 ] [ 49 ] Internal dissonance can be created if people's beliefs and emotions about animal treatment do not match their eating behavior, although it may not always be subjectively perceived as ...
Carnism is a concept used in discussions of humanity's relation to other animals, defined as a prevailing ideology in which people support the use and consumption of animal products, especially meat.
While meat eaters may have an inner conflict about the killing of animals for their food, this explanation of vegaphobia may not hold up to environmental reasons for avoiding meat. Environmentalist meat eaters may not see a conflict in eating meat because they see their individual environmental impact of meat consumption as low.
Melanie Joy (born September 2, 1966) is an American social psychologist and author, primarily notable for coining and promulgating the term carnism. [1] She is the founding president of nonprofit advocacy group Beyond Carnism, previously known as Carnism Awareness & Action Network (CAAN), [2] as well as a former professor of psychology and sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. [3]
Meat paradox: People care about animals, but embrace diets that involve harming them. Moral paradox : A situation in which moral imperatives clash without clear resolution. Outcomes paradox : Schizophrenia patients in developing countries seem to fare better than their Western counterparts.
I agree that carnism theorists only pay attention to a subset of meat psychology (‘’viz.’’ the meat paradox and mechanisms for its resolution), and tend to interpret it in a way consistent with the disputed ethical premise that meat-eating is ordinarily immoral. Our carnism article reflects this, appropriately, per WP:DUE and WP:OPINION.
Paradox psychology is a counter-intuitive approach that is primarily geared toward addressing treatment resistance. The method of paradoxical interventions (pdxi) is ...
In episode 7 of the 10th season of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon and Amy discuss the history of Buridan's ass (renamed donkey), and its application to their lives. Amy resolves the paradox (of Sheldon desiring to live in different apartments) by creating a more desirable option by engaging Sheldon in a discussion of the theory and its history.