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The next frontier: Moral heuristics and the treatment of animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2005

Harold A. Herzog  and
Gordon M. Burghardt
Harold A. Herzog*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC28723http://wcuvax1.wcu.edu/%7eherzog/
Gordon M. Burghardt*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN37996http://web.utk.edu/~gburghar/
*
herzog@email.wcu.edu
gburghar@utk.edu
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Abstract

Heuristics provide insight into the inconsistencies that characterize thinking related to the use of nonhuman animals. We examine paradoxes in judgments and policy related to the treatment of animals in science from a moral intuition perspective. Sunstein’s ideas are consistent with a model of animal-related ethical evaluation we developed twentyfive years ago and which appear readily formulated as moral heuristics.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 554 - 555
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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