Adam Feltz
Biographic Data
| ID | 183994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Feltz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Feltz |
| SIGNATURE | FELTZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4188-0617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Evidence for the common or usual name for plant-based food products
Common or usual names for food products are important for regulation and consumer understanding. Because some plant-based products aimed at mimicking animal-based products are relatively new, there is little evidence concerning whether those products have common or usual names, and if they do, what those common or usual names might look like. We present evidence from a survey (Study 1) based on vocabulary tests ( N = 181) suggesting that using pl…
Understanding Approval of Rodeos in the United States: Risk Perceptions, Knowledge, and Values as Predictors
In three studies ( N s = 188, 324, 358), relevant knowledge, perceptions of risk, and values combined to predict approval of rodeos. Those who knew more about harms associated with rodeos were less approving of rodeos than those who knew less. However, those who knew more of protections offered by some rodeo organizations were more supportive than those who knew less. Those who had attitudes supportive of using animals for human purposes were als…
Attitudes, knowledge, and justifications concerning industrially farmed animal welfare between residents of high and low animal agriculture states
Do residents of states with high levels of animal agriculture have different views about animal welfare on industrialized farms compared to residents of states with low levels of animal agriculture? In a survey of residents of high and low farmed animal agriculture states in the USA ( N = 1985), we found that views about farmed animal welfare were largely similar between residents of those two sets of states. Using an extreme groups analysis of t…
Skilled Decisions and Animals Used for Human Purposes: Results From Convenience and Representative US Samples
Developing an objective measure of knowledge of factory farming
Knowledge of human uses of animals is an important, but understudied, aspect of how humans treat animals. We developed a measure of one kind of knowledge of human uses of animals – knowledge of factory farming. Studies 1 (N = 270) and 2 (N = 270) tested an initial battery of objective, true or false statements about factory farming using Item Response Theory. Studies 3 (N = 241) and 4 (N = 278) provided evidence that responses to a 10-item Knowle…
Using food frequency questionnaires to measure traits: A case study of human consumption of animals and animal products
Measuring human consumption of animals and animal products (HCAAP) is challenging but often important for researchers and animal rights advocates. We contribute to measuring HCAAP by conceptualizing that consumption as a trait. In 3 studies, we analyzed responses from traditional Food Frequency Questionnaires and created two measures of HCAAP traits based on 24-hour and 3-month self-reports. Studies 1 (N = 249) and 2 (N = 265) evaluated the item-…
Willingness to Consume Fewer Animal Products: A Latent Profile Analysis
The goal of this research was to develop a brief instrument to identify people's stage of readiness to change consuming animals. In two studies (ns = 206, 51% male; 226, 43% male), participants responded to 15 items based on a clinical instrument of readiness to change alcohol consumption. Responses to these 15 items were then analyzed by latent profile analysis to identify participants' readiness to change stage. As predicted, we identified (1) …
Educational interventions and animal consumption: Results from lab and field studies
The free will and punishment scale: Efficient measurement and predictive validity across diverse and nationally representative adult samples
What is an endangered species: Judgments about acceptable risk
Judgments about acceptable risk in the context of policy may be influenced by law makers, policy makers, experts and the general public. While significant effort has been made to understand public attitudes on acceptable risk of environmental pollution, little is known about such attitudes in the context of species’ endangerment. We present survey results on these attitudes in the context of United States’ legal-political apparatus intended to mi…
Measuring objective knowledge of potable recycled water
Reliable clean drinking water is becoming increasingly scarce. One potential additional source of drinking water is recycled water. However, public acceptance of potable recycled drinking water is low. One likely factor involved in the acceptance of recycled drinking water is objective knowledge about recycled water. In three studies ( N = 229, 590, and 200), we developed a 34‐item measure of objective knowledge of recycled drinking water. The ob…
Experimental philosophy of actual and counterfactual free will intuitions
Moral responsibility and free will: A meta-analysis
The terror of ‘terrorists’: An investigation in experimental applied ethics
Some theorists argue that appropriate responses to terrorism are in part shaped by popular sentiment. In two experiments, using representative design and ecological stimuli (e.g. actual news reports), we present evidence for some of the ways popular sentiment about terrorism tracks theory and can be constructed. In Experiment 1, we document that using the word ‘terrorist’ to describe a group of people decreases willingness to understand the group…
Pereboom and premises: Asking the right questions in the experimental philosophy of free will
Predicting Philosophical Disagreement
We review evidence showing that disagreement in folk and expert philosophical intuitions can be predicted by global, heritable personality traits. The review focuses on recent studies of intuitions about free will, ethics, and intentional action. These findings are philosophically important because they suggest that while some projects cannot be done, other projects must take individual differences in philosophical character into account. But car…
Frankfurt and the folk: An experimental investigation of Frankfurt-style cases
Persistent bias in expert judgments about free will and moral responsibility: A test of the expertise defense
Adaptive variation in judgment and philosophical intuition
Experimental Philosophy
Experimental philosophy is a new approach to philosophy that incorporates the experimental methodologies of psychology, behavioral economics, and sociology. Experimental philosophers generally maintain that, in addition to traditional philosophical practices, these ways of gathering evidence can be instrumental in shedding light on philosophically important issues. Rather than relying on their own intuitions about specific cases, experimental phi…
Individual differences, judgment biases, and theory-of-mind: Deconstructing the intentional action side effect asymmetry
Do judgments about freedom and responsibility depend on who you are? Personality differences in intuitions about compatibilism and incompatibilism
Educational interventions and animal consumption: Results from lab and field studies
Individual differences, judgment biases, and theory-of-mind: Deconstructing the intentional action side effect asymmetry
Willingness to Consume Fewer Animal Products: A Latent Profile Analysis
The goal of this research was to develop a brief instrument to identify people's stage of readiness to change consuming animals. In two studies (ns = 206, 51% male; 226, 43% male), participants responded to 15 items based on a clinical instrument of readiness to change alcohol consumption. Responses to these 15 items were then analyzed by latent profile analysis to identify participants' readiness to change stage. As predicted, we identified (1) …
Measuring objective knowledge of potable recycled water
Reliable clean drinking water is becoming increasingly scarce. One potential additional source of drinking water is recycled water. However, public acceptance of potable recycled drinking water is low. One likely factor involved in the acceptance of recycled drinking water is objective knowledge about recycled water. In three studies ( N = 229, 590, and 200), we developed a 34‐item measure of objective knowledge of recycled drinking water. The ob…
Experimental Philosophy
Experimental philosophy is a new approach to philosophy that incorporates the experimental methodologies of psychology, behavioral economics, and sociology. Experimental philosophers generally maintain that, in addition to traditional philosophical practices, these ways of gathering evidence can be instrumental in shedding light on philosophically important issues. Rather than relying on their own intuitions about specific cases, experimental phi…
Do judgments about freedom and responsibility depend on who you are? Personality differences in intuitions about compatibilism and incompatibilism
Adaptive variation in judgment and philosophical intuition
Experimental Philosophy
Experimental philosophy is a new approach to philosophy that incorporates the experimental methodologies of psychology, behavioral economics, and sociology. Experimental philosophers generally maintain that, in addition to traditional philosophical practices, these ways of gathering evidence can be instrumental in shedding light on philosophically important issues. Rather than relying on their own intuitions about specific cases, experimental phi…
Individual differences, judgment biases, and theory-of-mind: Deconstructing the intentional action side effect asymmetry
Frankfurt and the folk: An experimental investigation of Frankfurt-style cases
Persistent bias in expert judgments about free will and moral responsibility: A test of the expertise defense
Pereboom and premises: Asking the right questions in the experimental philosophy of free will
Predicting Philosophical Disagreement
We review evidence showing that disagreement in folk and expert philosophical intuitions can be predicted by global, heritable personality traits. The review focuses on recent studies of intuitions about free will, ethics, and intentional action. These findings are philosophically important because they suggest that while some projects cannot be done, other projects must take individual differences in philosophical character into account. But car…
Moral responsibility and free will: A meta-analysis
The terror of ‘terrorists’: An investigation in experimental applied ethics
Some theorists argue that appropriate responses to terrorism are in part shaped by popular sentiment. In two experiments, using representative design and ecological stimuli (e.g. actual news reports), we present evidence for some of the ways popular sentiment about terrorism tracks theory and can be constructed. In Experiment 1, we document that using the word ‘terrorist’ to describe a group of people decreases willingness to understand the group…
Experimental philosophy of actual and counterfactual free will intuitions
What is an endangered species: Judgments about acceptable risk
Judgments about acceptable risk in the context of policy may be influenced by law makers, policy makers, experts and the general public. While significant effort has been made to understand public attitudes on acceptable risk of environmental pollution, little is known about such attitudes in the context of species’ endangerment. We present survey results on these attitudes in the context of United States’ legal-political apparatus intended to mi…
Measuring objective knowledge of potable recycled water
Reliable clean drinking water is becoming increasingly scarce. One potential additional source of drinking water is recycled water. However, public acceptance of potable recycled drinking water is low. One likely factor involved in the acceptance of recycled drinking water is objective knowledge about recycled water. In three studies ( N = 229, 590, and 200), we developed a 34‐item measure of objective knowledge of recycled drinking water. The ob…
The free will and punishment scale: Efficient measurement and predictive validity across diverse and nationally representative adult samples
Educational interventions and animal consumption: Results from lab and field studies
Using food frequency questionnaires to measure traits: A case study of human consumption of animals and animal products
Measuring human consumption of animals and animal products (HCAAP) is challenging but often important for researchers and animal rights advocates. We contribute to measuring HCAAP by conceptualizing that consumption as a trait. In 3 studies, we analyzed responses from traditional Food Frequency Questionnaires and created two measures of HCAAP traits based on 24-hour and 3-month self-reports. Studies 1 (N = 249) and 2 (N = 265) evaluated the item-…
Willingness to Consume Fewer Animal Products: A Latent Profile Analysis
The goal of this research was to develop a brief instrument to identify people's stage of readiness to change consuming animals. In two studies (ns = 206, 51% male; 226, 43% male), participants responded to 15 items based on a clinical instrument of readiness to change alcohol consumption. Responses to these 15 items were then analyzed by latent profile analysis to identify participants' readiness to change stage. As predicted, we identified (1) …
Developing an objective measure of knowledge of factory farming
Knowledge of human uses of animals is an important, but understudied, aspect of how humans treat animals. We developed a measure of one kind of knowledge of human uses of animals – knowledge of factory farming. Studies 1 (N = 270) and 2 (N = 270) tested an initial battery of objective, true or false statements about factory farming using Item Response Theory. Studies 3 (N = 241) and 4 (N = 278) provided evidence that responses to a 10-item Knowle…
Attitudes, knowledge, and justifications concerning industrially farmed animal welfare between residents of high and low animal agriculture states
Do residents of states with high levels of animal agriculture have different views about animal welfare on industrialized farms compared to residents of states with low levels of animal agriculture? In a survey of residents of high and low farmed animal agriculture states in the USA ( N = 1985), we found that views about farmed animal welfare were largely similar between residents of those two sets of states. Using an extreme groups analysis of t…
Skilled Decisions and Animals Used for Human Purposes: Results From Convenience and Representative US Samples
Evidence for the common or usual name for plant-based food products
Common or usual names for food products are important for regulation and consumer understanding. Because some plant-based products aimed at mimicking animal-based products are relatively new, there is little evidence concerning whether those products have common or usual names, and if they do, what those common or usual names might look like. We present evidence from a survey (Study 1) based on vocabulary tests ( N = 181) suggesting that using pl…
Understanding Approval of Rodeos in the United States: Risk Perceptions, Knowledge, and Values as Predictors
In three studies ( N s = 188, 324, 358), relevant knowledge, perceptions of risk, and values combined to predict approval of rodeos. Those who knew more about harms associated with rodeos were less approving of rodeos than those who knew less. However, those who knew more of protections offered by some rodeo organizations were more supportive than those who knew less. Those who had attitudes supportive of using animals for human purposes were als…
Psychology (16 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Free Will and Agency (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Experimental philosophy (7 works) · Philosophical methodology (7 works) · Free will (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)