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Oct 14 2015 | karol orzechowski

Learning from our Companions: Animal Grief

Living with a companion animal makes us more likely to believe that non-human animals experience complex emotions, such as grief. READ MORE

Sep 15 2015 | karol orzechowski

Dog Emotions and Human Emotions: Cut From The Same Cloth

Humans conceptualize the emotions of dogs in a similar way to their own feelings, even if they have not have not spent much time around dogs. READ MORE

Sep 4 2015 | karol orzechowski

Farmed Animals, Humans, and Individuality

This study explores the relationship between humans and farmed animals in the context of the psychology of individuality and the masses. READ MORE

Aug 27 2015 | karol orzechowski

‘Cattle’ Workers and the Process of Emotional Detachment

An exploration of how 'cattle' workers conceptualize their job and justify working in a role that raises animals to be slaughtered for meat. READ MORE

Aug 11 2015 | karol orzechowski

Exploring How Horses and Humans Work Together

Horses can have relationships based on trust, mutuality, and cooperation with known humans. This differs from how horses interact with strangers. READ MORE

Jun 15 2015 | karol orzechowski

Inside Fish Minds: Cooperation, Cheating & Punishment

New research about fish challenges the "primate chauvinism" model of animal intelligence. READ MORE

Jun 13 2015 | karol orzechowski

Speaking For Fido: Dogs, Blogs, and ‘Ventriloquism’

Blogging about dogs, in a "dog's voice," can tell us a lot about dogs and the people who write about them. READ MORE

Feb 9 2015 | karol orzechowski

Animal Welfare and the Paradox of Animal Consciousness

In this paper, Marian Dawkins gives a summary of the history of the study of animal consciousness, and describes problems that scholars currently have in proving or demonstrating animal consciousness. In describing the history of animal behaviorism and related scholarship, as well as the the study of human consciousness, Dawkins explores how human shortcomings in understanding our own cognition also hamper our ability to recognize consciousness in other animals. However, Dawkins ultimately questions whether a detailed knowledge of animal consciousness is even necessary to provide animals with the welfare that they deserve. READ MORE

Feb 4 2015 | karol orzechowski

‘Never an It’: Intersubjectivity and the Creation of Animal Personhood in Animal Shelters

In this paper, Nicola Taylor asks sociologists to open themselves up to the further study of human-animal relationships, and specifically the way that identity and subjecthood is constructed across the human-animal dualism. Using two animal shelters from the U.K. as case studies, Taylor examines the way that animals living at those shelters are treated as persons and accorded personhood through the actions of shelter staff. Taking account of the processes of naming animals, as well as how individuals are placed into homes, Taylor shows that shelter staff take great consideration and labor in making sure that the animals in their care are taken seriously as individuals and persons. READ MORE

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Learning from our Companions: Animal Grief

Dog Emotions and Human Emotions: Cut From The Same Cloth

Farmed Animals, Humans, and Individuality

‘Cattle’ Workers and the Process of Emotional Detachment

Exploring How Horses and Humans Work Together

Inside Fish Minds: Cooperation, Cheating & Punishment

Speaking For Fido: Dogs, Blogs, and ‘Ventriloquism’

Animal Welfare and the Paradox of Animal Consciousness

‘Never an It’: Intersubjectivity and the Creation of Animal Personhood in Animal Shelters

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