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Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

Vegan Feminist Sociologist, Writer, and Activist

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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Identification Leads to Empathy

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 26, 2018September 23, 2018
What is Empathy? Empathy is a psychological concern for with others made possible by a vicarious experience of others' experiences. It is most easily achieved when a person can identify with those in need. IdentificationContinue reading
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Happy People are Helping People

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 23, 2018September 23, 2018
A number of variables can induce prosocial, helping behaviors. Mood is one such variable. According to the social psychological research, happy people are helpful people (Salovey et al. 1991). Folks may wish to help inContinue reading
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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Egoism and Helping

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 21, 2018September 16, 2018
Why Help? What motivates people to help? Is it altruism, peer pressure, legal force, or simply egoism? The motivations for prosocial behavior are numerous, but generally, it behooves humans, a social species, to help. AndContinue reading
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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Socioemotional Selectivity Theory

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 20, 2018September 9, 2018
Age (and Time Perception) Matters According to socioemotional selectivity theory, as people age, their social goals shift considerably. For younger people who have a perception that there is much time ahead, they focus on knowledge-relatedContinue reading
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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Extreme Rituals

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 12, 2018July 26, 2018
Extreme Rituals Animal activists regularly employ extreme protest rituals in hopes of soliciting empathy and support from audiences. Activists may engage in dangerous tree-sits. They may brand one another with hot irons as if theyContinue reading
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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Can You Read Yourself Vegan?

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 9, 2018July 24, 2018
The processes of persuasion and behavioral change are complex. Social psychologists recognize that information can influence us differently depending on the channel of dissemination. The Nonhuman Animal rights movement relies quite heavily on text-based literatureContinue reading
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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Variety

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 6, 2018December 21, 2017
Unfamiliarity with new foods can be a major barrier to successfully promoting veganism, but this is an easy enough fix. One study found that non-vegans who were repeatedly exposed to vegan alternatives to “meat” began toContinue reading
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The Social Psychology – Do-Gooder Derogation

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 5, 2018December 21, 2017
    One of the most important factors to going and staying vegan is a supportive network (Cherry 2006). Unfortunately, complicating this is a tendency for vegans to be perceived as “thinking they’re better thanContinue reading
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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Scripting

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 2, 2018October 16, 2018
Effective persuasion necessitates that activists carefully direct desired behavior change. For vegans, what this means is that telling people to "Go Vegan!" is not sufficient, because it is not self-evident what going vegan entails. VeganismContinue reading
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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Meaningful Moments

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 1, 2018October 14, 2018
Remembering Meaningful Moments The human brain must filter and interpret massive amounts of information across its lifespan. Of course, not everything lasts in storage. It will usually be those moments that were especially memorable inContinue reading
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Dr. Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. 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 co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals, Consulting Editor for Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, and past Editor for The Sociological Quarterly, is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee, and hosts Sociology & Animals Podcast. 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), Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021), Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (forthcoming, Routledge, and Vegan Feminism: History, Theory, Activism (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).

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