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Human-Animal Relationships : = Exploring human concern for animals.

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Title/Author:	Human-Animal Relationships :/
Reminder of title:	Exploring human concern for animals.
Author:	George, Kelly Ann.
Description:	1 online resource (120 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: B.
Subject:	Zoology. -
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ISBN:	9781369591279

Human-Animal Relationships : = Exploring human concern for animals.
George, Kelly Ann.

Human-Animal Relationships :Exploring human concern for animals. - 1 online resource (120 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references

Humans and non-human animals have an intertwined evolutionary history. Since our earliest understanding of human existence to contemporary time, animals have played an essential role in our survival and vice versa. Recognizing the importance of this relationship, the changes witnessed through time, and the potential for change in the future may prove vital for decisions that society will face affecting these relationships. Thus, the overall objective of this dissertation was to analyze human-animal relationships, in particular the growing concern for animal welfare. Chapter 1 offers a short introduction to my personal interests and why I came to this research objective. Chapter 2 offers a review of the literature pertaining to the later chapters. The review consists of three basic areas: 1) animal and human characteristics that influence the human-animal relationship; 2) concerns regarding contemporary human-animal relationships; and 3) the potential to affect change in current and future human-animal relationships. Chapter 3 explores the aspect of a shift in societal concern for animal welfare using a national survey to measure the change in attitudes toward specific animal species over the past three decades. Results of this survey suggest an increase in concern, demonstrated by the increase in positive attitudes toward most species; including significant positive increases in five either historically stigmatized or perceived dangerous species (e.g. bats, sharks, vultures, wolves and coyotes). This shift may be explained, in part, by a societal shift in value orientations from a domination orientation, consumptive in nature, toward a mutualism orientation, appreciative in nature. Chapter 4 uses this explanation to further explore potential mechanisms that motivate concern for animals. Using student populations in two academic disciplines with seemingly competing value orientations (i.e. Animal Sciences and Environment & Natural Resources), an electronic survey was administered to identify potential mechanisms, measuring empathy, value orientation, attitudes toward the treatment of animals, and behaviors based on concern for animals. Results suggest the student populations are more similar than expected, largely with mutualistic value orientation. Empathy was rejected as a direct proximate mechanism, while animal value orientation, measured here for the first time using animals other than wildlife, appeared to be a good predictor of attitudes toward the treatment of animals, as well as behaviors based on concern for animals. Chapter 5 extends these findings further by considering if experiential learning affects attitudes toward animal conditioning practices, i.e. practices potentially contentious in nature. Using a course taught in the Department of Animal Sciences which offers students hands-on experience with animal conditioning practices, a pre-/posttest methodology was employed to measure attitudes toward these practices. Overall results suggest that experiential learning related to animal conditioning practices resulted in changes in attitudes toward these practices. Lastly, Chapter 6 offers a summary and interpretation of the results found during this research program. The chapter concludes by introducing future research opportunities in the area of human-animal relationships.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369591279Subjects--Topical Terms:

593903
Zoology.
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Electronic books.

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