2019-2020 Graduate Fellow
Jessica Mazen is a fifth year PhD student in social and quantitative psychology. Broadly, her research focuses on better understanding speciesism, or a set of socially shared beliefs that legitimates discrimination against and exploitation of other animals by human animals, and its relationship to other forms of oppression. Currently, she is exploring the economic exploitation of humans and non-human animals as the nexus of multiple forms of oppression by priming economic goals and examining changes in attitudes and decisions. Additionally, she is developing a scale that better measures the speciesism construct using item response theory.