What is animal happiness?
| Autor: | L.E. Webb, Jes Lynning Harfeld, Margit Bak Jensen, Ruut Veenhoven |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
General Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Environmental ethics Affect (psychology) General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine History and Philosophy of Science Animal welfare Happiness Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common |
| Zdroj: | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1438:62-76 |
| ISSN: | 0077-8923 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/nyas.13983 |
| Popis: | Today, we see a growing concern for the quality of life of nonhuman animals and an accompanying call for viable means of assessing how well animals thrive. Past research focused on minimizing negatives such as stress, while more recent endeavors strive to promote positives such as happiness. But what is animal happiness? Although often mentioned, the term lacks a clear definition. With recent advances in the study of animal emotion, current interest into positive rather than negative experiences, and the call for captive and domesticated animals to have good lives, the time is ripe to examine the concept of animal happiness. We draw from the human and animal literature to delineate a concept of animal happiness and propose how to assess it. We argue that animal happiness depends on how an individual feels generally—that is, a typical level of affect. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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