Attribution of emotions to animals can affect human–animal interactions and dictate animal
welfare laws. However, little is known about the factors that influence these attributions. We�…

A questionnaire was used to assess people's attitudes toward 33 species of animals on six
dimensions (useful-useless, smart-stupid, responsive-unresponsive, lovable-unlovable, safe�…

People affect animals through four broad types of activity:(1) people keep companion, farm,
laboratory and captive wild animals, often while using them for some purpose;(2) people�…

The purpose of this paper was twofold: First, to test if people project their own personality
traits onto dogs, and second, to examine if considering the psychological state of dogs�…

The study investigates the individual differences in attitudes to animals, in the attempt at
finding a wider predictive model that includes both sociodemographic and psychological�…

Research suggests that animals' capacity for agency, experience, and benevolence predict
beliefs about their moral treatment. Four studies built on this work by examining how fine�…

The central premise of the present chapter is that humans routinely undervalue animals
relative to themselves. This devaluing has implications not only for animals, in terms of�…

It would be difficult to overestimate the significance of animals in the social and
psychological life of our species. Images of animals are everywhere: in our language�…

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�…

Abstract investigated common-sense beliefs about the mental lives of a number of species in
a group of" intelligent laypeople"(college students)/sought to (a) develop an instrument that�…