Dignity Denial and Social Conflicts

Social Cognitive Semantic Conflicts and Social Cognitive Reaction Conflicts: Mechanism of Self-Control

The aims of this study were to investigate the differences in responses for varied self-control experiment paradigms, and to explain these differences on the basis of social cognitive semantic conflicts and social cognitive reaction conflicts. Using two mixed experimental designs, the study incorporated the stop signal and single-attribute implicit association test paradigms into a selfcontrol ...

Drinking and denial of social obligations among adolescent boys.

Freedom and Human Dignity

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology When Conflicts Are Good: Nonconscious Goal Conflicts Reduce Confirmatory Thinking

The simple dignity of sentient life: speciesism and human dignity.

Does the very idea of “human dignity” entail some moral disrespect for nonhuman animals? Put otherwise, does the notion of “human dignity” smack of speciesism (roughly, a view whereby nonhuman, sentient individuals are denied [adequate] moral standing on essentially arbitrary grounds)? Animal advocates, like James Rachels, often allege that there is a serious clash between the traditional view ...