Science Versus Human Welfare? Understanding Attitudes Toward Animal Use
This comparison of the attitudes of scientists, animal welfarists, and laypersons toward four types of animal use found that scientists and animal welfarists had polarized views on all measures, while layperson attitudes fell in between.
Animal welfarists consistently opposed all types of animal use, while scientists supported the use of animals for medical research, but not typically for dissection, personal decoration, or entertainment. Animal welfarists exhibited stronger belief in the animal mind for thirteen animal types, while scientists believed that only some of the thirteen animal types had at least a moderate capacity for cognition and sentience.