Because the literature on factors influencing the average adult's attitudes and attachment to
pet animals is extremely limited, this study was designed to investigate whether present pet�…

This chapter describes and discusses different views concerning our duties towards
animals. First, we explain why it is necessary to engage in thinking about animal ethics and�…

Attitudes toward animals are important in influencing how animals are treated. Few studies
have investigated attitudes toward animals in veterinary or animal-science students, and no�…

The question of how nonhuman animals think is pervasive in the scientific and popular
media, yet there is an apparent lack of concordance between findings from research in�…

People who interact with or make decisions about invertebrate animals have an attitude
toward them, although they may not have consciously worked it out. Three philosophical�…

Relations between humans and nonhuman animals are morally significant, intense,
enduring, and pervasive. Presented here are current perspectives on social and�…

Cultural differences in students' attitudes towards animals need to be better understood and
respected in order to promote tolerance in multicultural biological education. A cross-cultural�…

This article starts with the assumption that the term “person” in the everyday sense is
generally taken to be synonymous with the term “human”. Philosophers tend to use the word�…

Within the last 30 years, western attitudes to non-human animals and their treatment have
undergone some revolutionary changes (see Midgley, 1994; and also see Chapter 11, this�…

The conflict between animal costs and human benefits has dominated public as well as
academic debates about animal research. However, surveys of public perceptions of animal�…