Guided by morality, the research study claims, animal rights advocates live a life heavily influenced by their feelings, thoughts, and experiences.
CELINE ICARD-STOLL: ‘What does it mean to be an advocate for animal rights?… Swedish researchers set out to answer this. According to the researchers, there are three components that contribute to people’s affective and cognitive responses to experiences: the corporal body (what is physically felt), the psyche (what is thought), and the culture (the context).
These three factors work together to inform how people process experiences. Then, the memories of the experiences are given positive, neutral, or negative classifications based on these different perceptions. This fosters an “embedded, embodied subjectivity” towards a particular subject – in this case, animals.
For animal rights advocates, these three areas informed their knowledge on conflict, established power structures, and a different future. Guided by morality, the authors state, animal rights advocates live a life heavily influenced by their feelings, thoughts, and experiences. They have gone through the process of re-engineering their affections and sensibilities towards animals…
All three of these processes contribute to an animal rights advocate’s perceived experiences of the world. The body, the psyche, and the culture intertwine to re-engineer how advocates respond to experiences and, accordingly, how these experiences inform their advocacy’. SOURCE…
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