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The Deal With Animals with Marika S. Bell122. What Sparks Change in Our View of Animals? PHAIR 2025 with Dr. Matti Wilks and Dr Luke McguireSend us a textSpecial Episode: Psychology for Human Animal Intergroup relations. PHAIR 2025 Register! TranscriptGuests: Dr Matti Wilks is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton and Yale Universities. She is generally interested in morality and related things. Her research mostly focuses on the moral circle and moral development, with a particular focus on moral concern for distant others (distant people, non-human animals, AI) and the motivations of u...2025-05-2647 min
Speaking of PsychologyMeat and morality: Will people eat lab-grown meat? With Matti Wilks, PhD, and Daniel Rosenfeld, PhDAdvocates of cultured meat say that it could help solve many environmental and animal welfare problems. But psychologists have found that some consumers say they’d be reluctant to try it. Matti Wilks, PhD, and Daniel Rosenfeld, PhD, discuss the psychological factors at play when people consider eating lab-grown meat -- and meat in general -- and how moral values, disgust, and other factors contribute to people’s dietary choices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2025-04-1638 min
The Infinite Monkey CageHow selfish are we really? - Jo Brand, Matti Wilks and Steve JonesBrian Cox and Robin Ince kindly open the door for each other as they step into understanding altruism, asking why humans have evolved to help each other. Joining them to explore the human tendency to be kind is evolutionary biologist Steve Jones, psychologist Matti Wilks and comedian Jo Brand. Starting with the animal kingdom, we probe the biological underpinnings of why organisms might act to help others at an energetic cost to themselves and where this fits alongside the theory of evolution. We explore how the development of human societies has necessitated altruistic behaviours and how these...2025-02-2642 min
Walter Veit Podcast#19 - Matti Wilks: On the Psychology of Moral Motivations and Effective AltruismIn today's episode, I interview Matti Wilks who is a Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She is researching how our moral circles expand, why we devalue distant beings, and why some people are more altruistic than others.
You can visit her website here: https://www.mattiwilks.com/home
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RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ed331d30...2024-03-131h 04The Deal With Animals with Marika S. Bell90: Breastfeeding and the Dairy Industry: Vegan Motherhood with Journalist, Jessica Scott-Reid (S9)Send us a text"A lot of babies are born with an allergy to the protein in cow's milk that can transfer through breast milk, if you consume dairy as the mother....and a common thing that doctors will tell you to do is to eliminate certain things from your own diet to make the breast milk easier for your child to digest. Dairy {from cows} is one of those top things. " - Jessica Scott-Reid Episode 4 of Series 9: Unveiling Vegan Culture TranscriptWhen Jessica Scott-Reed's young daughter developed a...2024-02-2633 min