Why childhood may be the ideal period for vegan education. The Vegan Society. Jan 24, 2025.
What can we learn from studying anti-vegan groups online? Psychology Today. Dec 13, 2022. Co-authored with Rebecca Gregson.
What can vegans learn from anti-vegans? The Vegan Society. Sept. 14, 2022. Co-authored with Rebecca Gregson.
What people don't want to know about the animals they eat. Psychology Today. May 4, 2022. Co-authored with Stefan Leach.
Is speciesism inevitable? Lessons from early development. The Vegan Society, Expert Series. Oct 14, 2021.
What makes people think an action is morally wrong? Our judgments of wrongdoing are based on several considerations, but injustice may be the most important. Character and Context (SPSP's blog). Co-authored with Paulo Sousa. Oct 11, 2019.
Piazza, J. (2021, Jan). A vegan future? The Psychologist.
Piazza, J. & McLatchie, N. (2019, Aug 16). Cannibalism is common in the animal kingdom -- here's why for humans it's the ultimate taboo. The Conversation. {Link to article}
Piazza, J. (2018, July 31). Baby animals really do reduce your appetite for meat, say psychologists. The Conversation. {Link to article}
Piazza, J. (2017, July 21). Struggling to ditch meat? Here are five ways to resist the temptation. The Conversation. {Link to article}
Piazza, J. (2016, Oct 11). Why we are all moral hypocrites - and what we can do about it. The Conversation. {Link to article}
Piazza, J. (2016, May 5). Why aren't more people vegetarian? The Conversation. {Link to article}
Piazza, J. (2016, Feb 10). If meat could talk, would you still eat it? The Conversation. {Link to article}
Piazza, J. (2015, Dec 21). Should you tell your child the truth about Santa? A psychologist's view. The Conversation. {Link to article}
Piazza, J. (2015, Jun 24). Why are we outraged about eating dog, but not bacon? The Conversation. {Link to article}
--Will we ever give other animals the same rights as humans? Interview for "Humans & Hope" podcast w/ host Richard Docwra. Nov. 8, 2021.
--Women seeing baby animals have a reduced appetite for meat. Coverage of Anthrozoös article on baby animals and meat. Eurekalert! Aug 1, 2018.
--Appeared on BBC Wales TV show "Hayley Goes..." Episode 6 "Hayley Goes...Vegan" Series started June 18, 2019.
--Radio interview I did for Our Hen House. Episode 361: bit.ly/OHHEp361 Dec. 10, 2016
--Why we're OK with eating pigs, but not dogs. Coverage of my SPPS article with Steve Loughnan, 'When meat gets personal', which includes important insights from Calvin and Hobbes. AlterNet. Oct 10, 2016.
--The meat motivated mind: An interview with Dr. Jared Piazza. Interview I did with Tobias Leenaert. The Vegan Strategist. Aug 23, 2016.
--The lie that many people who eat meat tell themselves. Article by Jesse Singal covering our 'When meat gets personal' paper. Science of Us. Aug 1, 2016.
--The meat paradox: Why we love animals but slaughter and eat them. Article I wrote for International Business Times. May 18, 2016. (To commemorate National Vegetarian Week, UK)
--Why doesn't everyone go vegetarian? What makes people adopt a vegetarian or vegan diet. The Independent. May 5, 2016. Re-published from the article I wrote for The Conversation.
--Would you still eat meat if animals could talk? The Independent. Feb 11, 2016. Re-published from the article I wrote for The Conversation.
--We care just as much about wrongdoing if it isn't in our own back yard. Lancaster Psychology Research Blog article I wrote. Jan 21, 2016
--Should you tell your child the truth about Santa? A psychologist's take. Dec 21, 2015. Re-published in The Independent. Dec 23, 2015
--Media piece I wrote for Atlas of Science for our Cognition article: People and companies who do harm are dehumanized, not typecasted. Oct 27, 2015
--The 4 Ways People Rationalize Eating Meat. New York Magazine, Science of Us, 6/4/2015
--BBC News 10 things we didn't know last week 6/5/2015
--Are meat eaters more likely to tolerate social inequality? Munchies, The Vice Channel 5/19/2015
--How people defend eating meat. Science Daily 5/15/2015
--Scientists know what we care about most: Food, Faith & Fermentation. Interview for Philadelphia Weekly and media coverage of Philadelphia Science Festival where I discuss the 4Ns of meat justification 4/23/2014
--Morality, secret to popularity. Boston Globe coverage of JPSP article on the importance of moral character information in person perception and social evaluation, coauthored with Geoff Goodwin and Paul Rozin. 10/27/13
--Liberals and conservatives approach moral judgments in fundamentally different ways. Media coverage of SPPS article on Religiosity and non-consequentialist thinking. Here's a link to PsyPost article. 06/22/13 Another link to Addicting Info article. 06/24/13
--In his blog Bering in Mind, Jesse Bering discusses the "Invisible Observer" or "empty chair" effect, which we demonstrated in our article “Princess Alice is Watching You: Children’s Belief in an Invisible Person Inhibits Cheating,” published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Also, check out the video at the end of Jesse's blog post, which presents a dramatized re-enactment of our Princess Alice study, filmed for an episode of Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. Here's a link to the video segment on Youtube
--Godlike princess curbs cheating. New Scientist coverage of my article, "Princess Alice is Watching You: Children's Belief in an Invisible Person Inhibits Cheating"
--For the 'observer effect' to occur does it matter who the observer is? My response to this question in Science + Religion Today. May 3, 2011.
--Worried about gossip? It could influence generosity. Reuters. April 16, 2008
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