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Knowing AnimalsEpisode 240: Children's moral circles, with Matti WilksDr Matti Wilks is a social and developmental psychologist who is a reader in psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Her work explores people’s moral motivation and actions. This includes lots of work that will be of interest to listeners, including research addressing the psychology of moral concern for animals and research addressing attitudes towards cultivated meat. In this episode, we talk about her 2025 paper ‘When development constricts our moral circle’, which was co-authored with Julia Marshall, Lucius Caviola, and Karri Neldner, and published in Nature Human Behaviour. Knowing Animals is proudly sponsored by the Animal Politics...2025-08-0434 min
Yohann Hoarau - Éthique et PsychoInterviews aux colloques antispécistes de RennesSérie de courtes interviews réalisées lors du colloques universitaires de Rennes sur la libération animale du 4 et 5 juin 2025.
Lien vers les 3 interviews en anglais :
https://youtu.be/PWxkrfRZ8NQ
Me soutenir sur Ko-fi ou Tipeee :
https://ko-fi.com/mangayoh
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00:00 : Intro
01:28 : Sarah Zanaz
03:36 : Mathis Poupelin
06:43 : Nolwenn Veillard
10:16 : Nicolas Poirel
13:25 : Eloïse Ly Van Tu
15:47 : Tom Bry-Chevalier
21:12 : Émilie Dardenne
23:53 : Jules Braly-Nova
26:25 : Matti Wilks
29:46 : Bob Fisher
33:20 : Oscar Horta
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Yohann Hoarau - Éthique et PsychoInterviews aux colloques antispécistes de RennesSérie de courtes interviews réalisées lors du colloques universitaires de Rennes sur la libération animale du 4 et 5 juin 2025.
Lien vers les 3 interviews en anglais :
https://youtu.be/PWxkrfRZ8NQ
Me soutenir sur Ko-fi ou Tipeee :
https://ko-fi.com/mangayoh
https://fr.tipeee.com/yohann-hoarau-ethique-et-psycho
00:00 : Intro
01:28 : Sarah Zanaz
03:36 : Mathis Poupelin
06:43 : Nolwenn Veillard
10:16 : Nicolas Poirel
13:25 : Eloïse Ly Van Tu
15:47 : Tom Bry-Chevalier
21:12 : Émilie Dardenne
23:53 : Jules Braly-Nova
26:25 : Matti Wilks
29:46 : Bob Fisher
33:20 : Oscar Horta
Mes réseaux :
B...2025-07-1800 min
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 minThe Deal With Animals with Marika S. Bell86: Can Dog Cuddling Influence Reduced Meat Consumption? Care Ethics with Dr. Maurice Hamington (S9)Send us a text"We don't share a lot of things. We don't really share much language with animals. We don't really understand all the instincts of animals, but, we do share embodiment with them. And so that becomes a basis for imagining what their perspective is like, just like it becomes the basis for understanding what's going on with other people." - Dr. Maurice HamingtonEpisode 1 of Series 9 Unveiling Vegan Culture TranscriptIn this episode we invite philosophy professor Maurice Hammington to explore the world of veganism and t...2024-01-0154 min
Sentientism170: "Think more like six year olds!" - Psychology Researcher Luke McGuire - SentientismLuke is a lecturer working in the Department of Psychology at the University of Exeter. His research examines social and moral development between childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. Between 2017 and 2020 he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on the Wellcome Trust, ESRC and NSF funded “STEM Teens” project. This project examined the role of youth educators in informal science learning sites, both by longitudinally following youth educators and by quasi-experimentally examining their role in these sites.
In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “who matters?”
Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compa...2023-09-191h 22
The Sentience Institute PodcastMatti Wilks on human-animal interaction and moral circle expansion“Speciesism being socially learned is probably our most dominant theory of why we think we're getting the results that we're getting. But to be very clear, this is super early research. We have a lot more work to do. And it's actually not just in the context of speciesism that we're finding this stuff. So basically we've run some studies showing that while adults will prioritize humans over even very large numbers of animals in sort of tragic trade-offs, children are much more likely to prioritize humans and animals lives similarly. So an adult will save one person over a...2023-01-191h 06
The Deal With Animals with Marika S. Bell31: Attitudes Towards Animals with Matti Wilks (S5)Send us a textEpisode 1 of Series 5: Children and Other AnimalsWhy do some some people choose to stop eating meat? Would a child save a dog or a person from a sinking boat? Questions like this are posed by Matti and her colleagues to find out how our moral circles are formed and change into adulthood. The implications towards distant others (culturally and physically) are important. Book Recommendation: The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living EthicallyScience Daily Article F...2022-09-0547 min
The Conversation WeeklyScience of lab-grown and plant-based meat + Indonesia's child smoking problemHow do you mimic meat? We take a look at the science behind plant-based and cultured meat in this episode, where it might lead and how ready people are to eat meat grown in a lab.Mariana Lamas, a research associate at the Centre for Culinary Innovation at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, Canada, talks us through some of the key elements that make a plant-based meat mimic successful. Andrew Stout, PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at Tufts University in Massachusetts, US, explains how he grows meat in a petri dish, and where he sees...2021-07-1537 min
Many MindsIs speciesism in our nature?Let’s say you’re out on the open sea, having a leisurely sail, when you suddenly encounter not one but two sinking boats. One is a boat with two dogs in it; the other is a boat with a single human in it. You can only save one of the boats, so which one do you pick? The answer may seem obvious—you save the boat with the human, right? For many adults—even those who have a special love for animals—there’s little question that a human life is simply worth more, perhaps way more, than a...2021-06-0931 min
Sentientism45: "Children are much less speciesist than adults" - researcher Matti Wilks - Sentientist ConversationsMatti (https://www.mattiwilks.com/ and @matti_wilks) is a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University, working with Professor Paul Bloom. She studies moral psychology & moral development - including attitudes to cultivated meat & the "natural", the moral status of various types of entities & altruism.
In these Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings."
The video of our conversation is here on YouTube.
We discuss:
- Doing research to make the world a better place (& curiosity)
- Gr...2021-04-091h 08
The Compassion Initiative: Just Two Guys in Brisbane talking Compassion. www.thecompassioninitiative.com.auPodcast 12: Effective Altruism with Clare HarrisHere are a couple of extra resources and important people Clare wanted to mention and acknowledge:
These include in alphabetical order, the other co-founders of Effective Altruism at UQ: Alexander Buckmaster, Benjamin Cottier, Chelsea Just, Jennifer Yu and Matti Wilks. Also Isabelle Barrass and Ryan Kidd. As well as staff member Michael Vincent.
Here are some other important links:
Beth Barnes’ TED talk (6 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtWINl3C_7s
1-minute video on Students for High Impact Charity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnN15MFDNnU
Official site for info on effective altruism: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
Th...2018-04-2318 min