Pups and Babes: Quantifying Sources of Difference in Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Accounts of Human and Animal Abuse
| Autor: | Beth Daly, Nicola Taylor, Tania Signal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
biology Veterinary (miscellaneous) media_common.quotation_subject Media coverage Empathy Reporting abuse Education Developmental psychology Extant taxon Puppy Anthropology biology.animal Interpersonal Reactivity Index Personality Animal Science and Zoology Psychology Psychological abuse media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Anthrozoös. 27:205-217 |
| ISSN: | 1753-0377 0892-7936 |
| DOI: | 10.2752/175303714x13903827487485 |
| Popis: | Anecdotal reports suggest that people may be affected more by media coverage of animal rather than human-related abuse. Findings of the extant research regarding this apparent effect are mixed and omit certain key variables that may drive differential reactions to abuse disclosure. The goal of the current study was therefore to examine whether differences exist between individuals' emotional responses and pro-social behavior (reporting abuse) with respect to human (infant), or animal (puppy), directed abuse, and the effect of demographic and personality variables (including empathy and attitude to animals) on these responses. One hundred and twenty-three university students (104 females, 19 males) were presented with two scenarios (randomly presented to control for order effects) describing identical abuse situations but with two different “victims”—namely an infant or a puppy. Immediately after reading each scenario they were asked to indicate how much what the infant/puppy went through “bothered... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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