'Animals Like Us': Identifying with Nonhuman Animals and Support for Nonhuman Animal Rights
| Autor: | Stephen Reysen, Courtney N. Plante, Sharon E. Roberts, Kathleen C. Gerbasi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
Veterinary (miscellaneous) 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Education Developmental psychology Social group Nonhuman animal Anthropology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Animal Science and Zoology Identification (biology) 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Anthrozoös. 31:165-177 |
| ISSN: | 1753-0377 0892-7936 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08927936.2018.1434045 |
| Popis: | While anthropomorphizing nonhuman animals has been shown to increase identification with them and, by extension, concern for their wellbeing, little research has directly tested whether identifying with nonhuman animals is similarly associated with concern for their wellbeing. We tested hypotheses related to this premise across three cross-sectional studies. In study 1 (n = 224), we tested the hypothesis that therians—a group of people who self-identify with nonhuman animals, show greater concern for nonhuman animal rights than non-therian furries—people with a fan-like interest in media featuring anthropomorphized animal characters. In study 2 (n = 206), we further tested this hypothesis using implicit and explicit measures of identification with nonhuman animals to predict behavioral intentions to support nonhuman animal rights. In study 3 (n = 182), we tested the generalizability of our findings in a sample of undergraduate students. Taken together, the studies show that explicit, but not impli... |
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