Social Psychology

Dr. Wrenn’s full list of essays is available here.

Are Vegans Too Open to Free-Riders?

Can Flexitarianism Facilitate a Vegan World? Research Suggests Another Agenda

How Do I Positively Engage My Non-Vegan Family?

How Effective is the Vegan Lecture? Exam Scores Tell a Horrifying Story

Mainstreaming Veganism: Full Interview with Imagine5

Neuroscience Explains Vegan Commitment to Nonvegan Companies

Research Challenges the Emotionality of Anti-Speciesist Thought

Shocked or Satiated? Violent Imagery Traumatizes Rather than Motivates Veteran Activists

The Only Vegan in the Department: Science, Anti-Veganism, and the Illusion of Objectivity

Vegan Protest is Ritualized, but is it Religious?

World Vegan Month Series 2018: Social Psychology

Can You Read Yourself Vegan?

Cognitive Priming

Do-Gooder Derogation

Egoism and Helping

Extreme Rituals

Happy People are Helping People

Identification Leads to Empathy

The Illusion of Transparency

Group Size and Aggression

Linked Oppressions

Male Emotional Displays

Meaningful Moments

Moral Licensing

Prosocial Media Modeling

Reality Politics

Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

Vividness Doesn’t Persuade

World Vegan Month Series 2017: Social Psychology

Bystander Effect

Establishing Credibility

Decision Paralysis

Dissemination Channels

Door-in-the-Face

Fear-Framed Persuasion

Fostering Good Feelings

Gendered Helping

Just-world Phenomenon

Mere Exposure Effect

Opinion Leaders

Primacy and Recency Effects

Reason and Emotion

Reciprocity Norm

Selective Exposure

Social Responsibility Norm

Two-Sided Appeals

World Vegan Month Series 2016: Vegan Research

An Empirical Look at Becoming Vegan

Identity and Effectiveness

Sexist Imagery Reinforces Speciesist Sentiment

What Sociology Can Tell Us about Empathy for Animals

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Dr. Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and is co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She serves as Book Review Editor to Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Wrenn has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Values, Disability & Society, Food, Culture & Society, and Society & Animals. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), and Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021).

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