Journal article
Toward a psychology of human-animal relations
CE Amiot, B Bastian
Psychological Bulletin | AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC | Published : 2015
DOI: 10.1037/a0038147
Abstract
Nonhuman animals are ubiquitous to human life, and permeate a diversity of social contexts by providing humans with food and clothing, serving as participants in research, improving healing, and offering entertainment, leisure, and companionship. Despite the impact that animals have on human lives and vice versa, the field of psychology has barely touched upon the topic of human-animal relations as an important domain of human activity. We review the current state of research on human-animal relations, showing how this body of work has implications for a diverse range of psychological themes including evolutionary processes, development, normative factors, gender and individual differences, ..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This research was funded by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fond pour la Recherche en Sante du Quebec to Catherine E. Amiot and by fellowships from the Australian Research Council to Brock Bastian (DP110102632). We would like to thank Matthew Hornsey and Harold Herzog, who provided constructive feedback on this article. We also thank Maude Roberge, Sarah Bourdeau, Moseni Mulemba, and Martin Roy, for their precious help with the literature search, downloading and managing the references, and putting together Table 1; and Elsie Amiot, for serving as a source of inspiration.