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Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

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Tag: Rationality

Neuroscience Explains Vegan Commitment to Nonvegan Companies

Dr. Corey WrennMarch 27, 2022March 27, 2022
For some years now, I have been outspoken in my criticism against LUSH Cosmetics. LUSH is a purveyor of premium bath and body products, and it regularly engages in misogynistic stunts to promote them. With every renewedContinue reading
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Research Challenges the Emotionality of Anti-Speciesist Thought

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 23, 2022January 23, 2022

Prevailing social science emphasizes the emotiveness of anti-speciesism. However, this neuroscience research would suggest that many activists are opposed to and upset by speciesism as a matter of rational conclusion, not emotional reaction.

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The Nonprofit Bias: Research For Nonprofits By Nonprofits

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 26, 2021December 27, 2021

Until nonprofits provide transparency with regard to what influences their goalsetting and outcome analyses, their research should be considered unreliable and ungeneralizable.

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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Reason and Emotion

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 2, 2017October 12, 2018
In vegan advocacy, there is some degree of contention regarding the use of reasoned arguments (such as intellectual appeals or theory) and emotional arguments (using images or descriptions that create emotional reactions). Research supports thatContinue reading
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Derren Does Dairy: When Skepticism Fails Veganism

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 26, 2016December 16, 2018
Derren Brown is a British illusionist, mentalist, and skeptic known for divulging the secrets of magicians, psychics, and new age charlatans.  Folks in Brown's line of work spend a great deal of effort debunking bogusContinue reading
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The Rationalization of Misogyny: Why I left the Vegan Skeptic Community

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 31, 2016January 18, 2019
                  As readers may be aware, I take issue with the abolitionist position on atheism and feminism.  I won't rehash those points here, but given those developments, myself and aContinue reading
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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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