The Social Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond
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The Social Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond

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eBook - ePub

The Social Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond

About this book

Winner of the 2024 Prix Emile Girardeau prize, rewarding exceptional work in the economic or sociological sciences, this book examines afresh 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.

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Yes, you can access The Social Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond by Laurent Bègue-Shankland, François Tharaud in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Zoology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040423561
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Zoology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Humans are Animals to an Extent
  8. 2 The Role of Animals in Human Cultures
  9. 3 Interwoven Relationships Between Animals and Humans
  10. 4 The Origins of Our Prejudices Against Animals
  11. 5 The Paradoxes of Might Makes Right
  12. 6 The Fluid Boundaries of Empathy
  13. 7 Cruelty Towards Animals and Deviance
  14. 8 Why Are Human Societies Cruel to Animals?
  15. 9 How Empathy Gets Turned Off
  16. 10 Arguing Over Animal Bodies
  17. 11 How Many Dogs for Every Human?
  18. 12 Human Obedience in the Lab: The Milgram Experiment
  19. 13 An Experimental Study Using a Robotic Fish: A Variation of the Milgram Experiment
  20. 14 What the Study Reveals About Us
  21. 15 Neutralising the Gaze of Animals
  22. 16 Moral Dilemmas
  23. 17 Afterword: A Canary in the Coalmine
  24. Acknowledgements