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Environmental Concern and Public Attitudes Toward Marine Life in Coastal China
Contributor(s):: Chen, Mo, Martens, Pim
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The Complexity of the Human-Animal Bond: Empathy, Attachment and Anthropomorphism in Human-Animal Relationships and Animal Hoarding
Contributor(s):: Prato-Previde, E., Basso Ricci, E., Colombo, E. S.
The human-animal relationship is ancient, complex and multifaceted. It may have either positive effects on humans and animals or poor or even negative and detrimental effects on animals or both humans and animals. A large body of literature has investigated the beneficial effects of this...
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"Don't be so Modest, You're a Rat": Anthropomorphism, Social Class, and Renegotiation in Ratatouille and Bee Movie
| Contributor(s):: Reuben Dylan Fong
One of the common fantasy stories involving anthropomorphized nonhuman animals in animated children's films is of humans and animals discovering they can communicate as equals. The human-animal relationship in the premise of these films exemplifies the idea of questioning and renegotiating...
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“Is it gonna be fun?”: Lolabelle, Dog Pianists, and Musical Réussite
| Contributor(s):: Altizer, Katherine
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Effect of Anthropomorphizing Food Animals on Intentions to Eat Meat
| Contributor(s):: Johnson, Craig, Schreer, George, Bao, Katherine Jacobs
Awareness that others have human qualities (humanizing) generally results in a more favorable treatment of those others. Recent research has found that nonhuman entities (e.g., animals, the planet) also benefit when people view them as having human qualities (anthropomorphizing). Do those...
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Animal-Themed Tattoo Narratives: Insights into Ontological Perspectives
| Contributor(s):: Hill, Kristine
By examining the narratives associated with animal-themed tattoos, this study explores the various ways in which humans relate to other animals. Participants used animal-likenesses to think about themselves, others, and the world around them. By embodying positive attributes of a species that...
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Into the Animal Mind: Perceptions of Emotive and Cognitive Traits in Animals
| Contributor(s):: Callahan, Megan M., Satterfield, Terre, Zhao, Jiaying
As incidences of human–wildlife interaction escalate, it is useful to increase understanding of the perceptions that might underpin these interactions or explain human behavior so associated. This study sought to identify public perceptions of the animal mind across wildlife species and to...
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What do animals want?
| Contributor(s):: Franks, B.
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How happy is your pet? The problem o f subjectivity i n the assessment companion animal welfare
| Contributor(s):: Serpell, J. A.
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The neural basis of understanding the expression of the emotions in man and animals
| Contributor(s):: Robert P. Spunt, Emily Ellsworth, Ralph Adolphs
Humans cannot help but attribute human emotions to non-human animals. Although such attributions are often regarded as gratuitous anthropomorphisms and held apart from the attributions humans make about each other’s internal states, they may be the product of a general mechanism for...
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Development and Application of the Owner-Bird Relationship Scale (OBRS) to Assess the Relation of Humans to Their Pet Birds
| Contributor(s):: Burmeister, A. K., Drasch, K., Rinder, M., Prechsl, S., Peschel, A., Korbel, R., Saam, N. J.
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"We Lost a Member of the Family": Predictors of the Grief Experience Surrounding the Loss of a Pet
| Contributor(s):: Anna Maria C. Behler, Jeffrey D. Green, Jennifer Joy-Gaba
Pets play an important role in their owners' lives and are often viewed as family members. However, research on human-animal relationships suggests that pet owners often receive relatively less emotional support when experiencing grief after the death of a beloved pet, a phenomenon known as...
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The Psychological Processes Involved in the Development of a High-Quality Relation with one's Dog
| Contributor(s):: Lonneke Vinka, Arie Dijkstra
Background. Several studies have found an effect of pet ownership on human health and well-being. We propose that these benefits can only occur when the pet owner perceives the dog in a certain way: As having a human-like psychological functioning and experience of the world (anthropomorphism),...
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Inside the Yellow Rectangle: An Analysis of Nonhuman Animal Representations on National Geographic Kids Magazine Covers
| Contributor(s):: Vrla, Stephen, Whitley, Cameron T., Kalof, Linda
Nonhuman animals play significant roles in children’s lives. While research into children’s relationships with animals is thriving, an overlooked area is children’s vicarious experience of animals through realistic representations in nonfiction books, magazines, and other media. We used content...
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"Animals are friends, not food": Anthropomorphism leads to less favorable attitudes toward meat consumption by inducing feelings of anticipatory guilt
| Contributor(s):: Wang, F., Basso, F.
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A One Health Perspective on the Human-Companion Animal Relationship with Emphasis on Zoonotic Aspects
| Contributor(s):: Overgaauw, P. A. M., Vinke, C. M., Hagen, Maev, Lipman, L. J. A.
Over time the human–animal bond has been changed. For instance, the role of pets has changed from work animals (protecting houses, catching mice) to animals with a social function, giving companionship. Pets can be important for the physical and mental health of their owners but may also...
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Animal geographies I: Hearing the cry and extending beyond
| Contributor(s):: Gibbs, Leah M.
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Milkmaid Bears and Savage Mates: The Cultural Exploitation of Real and Fictive White Bears from the Elizabethan Period to the Present
| Contributor(s):: Woolf, Judith
The paper considers the cultural exploitation of bears, especially white ones, from the late sixteenth century to the present, both in drama and literary fiction and in the bear pits, theatres, circuses, zoos, and natural habitats in which real biological bears have found themselves mythologized...
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Does Anthropomorphism of Dogs Affect Pain Perception in Animal-Assisted Interventions? An Exploratory Study
| Contributor(s):: Turner-Collins, Clare, Breitenbecher, Kimberly H.
The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine the effects of anthropomorphism of a therapy dog on pain perception during an animal-assisted intervention. Participants were 32 college women who were randomly assigned to the anthropomorphism condition or the control condition. All...
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Dolphins in the Human Mind: What Characteristics Do German Students Attribute to Dolphins, Compared with Apes and Whales? An Exploratory Study
| Contributor(s):: Stumpf, Eva
Research on anthrozoology has greatly increased in recent decades, especially with regard to anthropomorphism and attitudes toward animals in general. Nevertheless, these studies have rarely distinguished between different nonhuman species. Previous studies have indicated human preferences for...
