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  1. How Much Solidarity Do You Feel With Animals?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    Five questions that measure how much you identify with animals.

  2. Do Pet Owners Have Lower Suicide Rates?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    Available research indicates that having a pet does not have a protective effect on suicide rates, but suicide is a rare event, and the sample sizes in the few studies were small.

  3. Do Purebreds (But Not Mutts) Reduce Dog Owner Death Rates?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    A major Swedish study of dog ownership and human mortality rates found that owners of a purebred, but not a mixed-breed dog, had lower mortality rates than non-owners.

  4. Do Children With Cats Have More Mental Health Problems?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    Researchers explain why there are so few studies of human-cat relationships.

  5. Cats Are Attached to Humans, After All

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Sebastian Ocklenburg

        

  6. Does Having Pets Really Make Us Healthier?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    New studies find little support for a "Pet Effect" on physical or mental health.

  7. Can Dogs Help Solve Our Childhood Obesity Problem?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    New studies show how dogs impact the weight and activity levels of kids.

  8. Why Do People Think Animals Make Good Therapists?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    New study helps explain why the "animal-assisted therapy" meme has gone viral.

  9. Animal-less homes

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Erasmo de Oliveira

    This is where my work completely diverges from what is called Stone Age activism or animal cause. Read and understand:

  10. Do Pets Keep People Healthy?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Katherine Compitus

    "Zooeiya" describes the positive benefits of human-animal interactions.

  11. 26 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Our Love for Pets

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    A controversial new book explains how pets make us human.

  12. Indian street dogs and minding animals conference

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

  13. Media Coverage of Pet Therapy Research Often Gets It Wrong

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    What a study of therapy dogs on kids with cancer really found.

  14. Therapy Dogs or Robots for Nursing Home Residents?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    A new study compares the impact of robots and therapy dogs in nursing homes.

  15. Are Pet Owners Really at Greater Risk of Cancer?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    The surprising results of a new “big data” study of cancer rates in pet owners.

  16. The Beneficial Effects of Animals on Children With Autism

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    Do children with autism disorders respond differently to animals?

  17. Encounters with Dead Pets: A Study of the Evolution of Grief

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    False recognitions of dead dogs and cats are common among grieving pet owners.

  18. Eating Cats

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

  19. Do Dog Owners REALLY Make Better Lovers?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog

    What does science say about the connection between love, sex and owning a dog?

  20. Did Eating Human Poop Play a Role in the Evolution of Dogs?

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    Soft Literature | Contributor(s): Harold Herzog