Ethical Interaction Lab

New episode🎙️Dr. Adam Feltz (OU Psychology) on how decisions form: beliefs + values. We debate nudges vs education—and why autonomy matters—using animal ethics as the case study. Watch/listen + tell us: nudged or informed?

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30.01.2026 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OU psych professor Dr. Adam Feltz on "How We Make Ethical Judgments": from policy to animal welfare, why moral disagreement is common—and how science can guide humane choices.

YouTube: youtu.be/bRMFU17TaeA

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22.01.2026 21:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Recycled water is wastewater cleaned by microbes, membranes, and UV/chlorine, then reused for parks, industry, aquifers, or, after extra polishing, safe drinking. It saves water, but some feel the “yuck factor.” Would you drink purified recycled water if your city used it? Why or why not?

19.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

The Myth of Misleading Labels: Examining Consumer Understanding of Plant-based Meat and Milk Analogues - Journal of Consumer Policy Recent legal and policy efforts have aimed at changing plant-based meat and milk product analogue labels to reduce consumer confusion. These proposed changes assume (a) that there is confusion about key aspects of plant-based products, and (b) that the proposed changes will fix that confusion if it exists. In Experiments 1a (N = 380) and 1b (N = 246), we provide evidence that there is little confusion about plant-based products when participants are presented with product labels about key product facts (e.g., contains animals, contains lactose). In Experiment 2 (N = 250), changing labels seemingly in accordance with proposed policies did little to reduce confusion but did decrease confidence in those judgments and made it more difficult to know what to use that product for or what the product would taste like. In Experiment 3 (N = 311), those results were replicated in a jurisdiction specific sample taken from residents of Texas. These results suggest that prominent proposals to change plant-based meat and milk analogue labels may be unnecessary and, in some cases, could be harmful.

New from Ethical Interactions Lab in Journal of Consumer Policy (2025):
“The myths of misleading labels: Examining consumer understanding of plant-based meat and milk analogues.”
We test what shoppers understand and what that means for labeling debates.👏
DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s106...

#FoodLabeling

03.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for your support!!🙌

01.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for the shout-out, @existwell! 🙌!! Appreciate it!!

01.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why do smart people disagree—and how can we design ethical interactions anyway?
Dr. Feltz & Dr. Cokely’s new open-access book digs into biases, diversity of intuitions, and real-world choice architecture.
Grab the free PDF (CC BY 4.0): link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
#Ethics#DecisionScience

01.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New in Nature Food: Our lab’s Media piece shows that documentaries can spark public interest in plant-based diets—measured by surges in related web searches. 🎬🌱
Read: doi.org/10.1038/s430...
#NatureFood #ScienceCommunication #PlantBased #MediaEffects

22.09.2025 19:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0