Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
ISBN: 978-1-032-89960-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Winner of the 2024 Prix Emile Girardeau prize. This book looks at our relationships of dominance with and affection for animals. It reviews how animals played a pivotal role in ancient civilizations, and still play a fundamental part in human lives, and looks at how many humans feel deep affection and other strong emotions towards animals. This book offers an understanding of human relationships with animals, providing an analysis of paradoxical human behaviour towards animals and a look at how empathy toward animals can be manipulated. Most notably, this book offers an in-depth look at Bègue-Shankland's adaptation of the famous Stanley Milgram’s experiment on submission to authority (this time, ordinary men and women are led to harm what they believe to be a lab animal (actually a robot) for the sake of science) to shed new light on what influences our behaviour and empathy towards animals. This book shows how much our relations with animals - from attachment to abuse -reveal our identity and our relations with others. It will provide a valuable resource not only to students and researchers studying human-animal relations, zoology and human psychology, but also to a general reader interested in animal advocacy.
Zielgruppe
General, Postgraduate, Professional Reference, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Fachgebiete
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Tierpsychologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
Weitere Infos & Material
Facing Animals: Our Emotions, our Prejudices, our Ambivalences
Introduction
Chapter 1: Humans are animals to an extent
Humans, the Pinnacle of Creation
Darwin: One Hell of a Fall
With New Perspectives Come New Biases
The Test of Consciousness, a Mismeasure of Animals
What it’s Like to Be an Animal
Evolving Representations
Chapter 2: The Role of Animals in Human Cultures
Ancestral Companionship
Mutual attraction
From Oracles to Religions
From Representation to Mimicry
Animals as Tools and Resources
The Beneficial Presence of Animals
Partisan Zoology
From Aesop to Disney
Chapter 3: Interwoven relationships between animals and humans.
Dehumanising a Group by Animalising it
Are People Who Care More about Animals Also More Compassionate with Humans?
A Framing Effect
Categorizing Animals and Depriving Them of Individuality
Chapter 4: The Origins of Our Prejudices against Animals
Where Animals and Humans Meet
Three Types of Animal Threats
Physical Attacks
Land and Air Collisions
Zoonoses
The Two Dimensions of our Perception of Animals
Chapter 5: The Paradoxes of Might Makes Right
Cognitive Dissonance
How to Solve the Problem of Meat Consumption?
Chapter 6: The Fluid Boundaries of Empathy
Are Fish Outside the Scope of our Empathy?
Fish Culture
Conditions for Empathy
Chapter 7: Cruelty Towards Animals and Deviance
Is there a Connection between Animal Abuse and Violence against Humans?
Serial Killers and a Norman Peasant
Violence and the Sociozoological Scale
Who by Fire, Who by Water
What We Learn from General Population Studies
Cruel Teenagers
Psychological Deficiencies and Trauma
Chapter 8: Why Are Human Societies Cruel to Animals?
Reasons for Ordinary Violence
The Escalation Hypothesis
Of Mice and Norms
Chapter 9: How Empathy Gets Turned Off
Double Sacrifice
The Harmful Principle
A Risk of Emotional Anaesthesia?
Laboratory Strategies and Semantic Tricks
Talking Points and Euphemisms
“Nameless”
Chapter 10: Arguing Over Animal Bodies
Descartes’s animal machine: what exactly are we talking about?
The case of the brown dog
The politicised animal
Direct action movements
Class oppositions
The political denunciation of vivisection
The overrepresentation of women
Presidential dogs
Chapter 11: How Many Dogs for Every Human?
The trolley problem
Opinion polls on animal experimentation
Mental attributions and their uses for research
Mental frameworks and animal instrumentalization
Chapter 12: Human Obedience in the lab: The Milgram Experiment
Looking back at Milgram’s experiment
Milgram, sixty years after the first shocks
Obedience to authority is not what Milgram thought it was.
A ratchet effect?
Science as a higher goal
A model of rational obedience
Chapter 13: An Experimental Study using a Robotic Fish: A Variation of the Milgram Experiment
In silico: the scientist and the artist
A biomimetic fish
Describing the injection protocol
The recruitment process and the different steps of the experiment
The impact of the protocol
Spotting suspicious participants
Chapter 14: What the study reveals about us
Behavioural predictions: a better-than-average effect
Consented authority
How does a pro-science attitude influence behaviour?
Chapter 15: Neutralising the gaze of animals
Touched by a gaze
Selective empathy
Complete lack of empathy
The empathy quotient and behaviour
Hierarchising living beings
Converging influences
Chapter 16: Moral Dilemmas
Stress and tension
Moral pain relief
Self-exoneration
Altruism or rebellion?
The “pet as ambassador” hypothesis
Poignant personal experiences
Once the experiment is over
Afterword: A canary in the coalmine
Our compromises with animals
After Milgram: revisiting our conceptions of submission to authority
With a canary in the coalmine
Acknowledgements
Index
