Naturalizing Anthropomorphism: Behavioral Prompts to Our Humanizing of Animals

By Alexandra Horowitz, M. Bekoff. 2007

154 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Genetics, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2c35c4fad0cd5a466def809ea251a3d5be0f5dde

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. B. Key
2. Olga Solomon

In Genetics

1. B. Key
2. Colin Klein
3. Olga Solomon
4. K. Kotrschal
5. Andrew B. Barron
6. A. Beetz

In Social Psychology

1. Esmeralda G. Urquiza-Haas
2. B. Key
3. Colin Klein
4. Olga Solomon
5. K. Kotrschal
6. Andrew B. Barron
7. A. Beetz

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of 2 training methods on stress-related behaviors of the dog (Canis familiaris) and on the dog–owner relationship (2014, unknown): “…began) and gaze monitoring repeat in successful human e dog play bouts d and that are often absent in unsuccessful bouts or when play collapses (Horowitz and Bekoff, 2007); they are additionally supported by the study by Rooney and Cowan (2011) who evidenced that dogs whose owners favored…”
• Why fish do not feel pain (2016, background): “The possibility that fish lack the necessary neural “hardware” to feel pain is typically overlooked because of anthropomorphic tendencies that bias interpretations of behavioural observations (Horowitz and Bekoff, 2007).”
• Insects have the capacity for subjective experience (2016, background): “The possibility that fish lack the necessary neural “hardware” to feel pain is typically overlooked because of anthropomorphic tendencies that bias interpretations of behavioural observations (Horowitz and Bekoff, 2007).”
• The mind behind anthropomorphic thinking: attribution of mental states to other species (2015, background): “Likewise, dog owners tend to attribute pleasure and enjoyment to their dogs as a result of successful play bouts, that is, play sessions in which dogs and owners interact reciprocally (Horowitz & Bekoff, 2007).”
• What a Dog Can Do: Children with Autism and Therapy Dogs in Social Interaction (2010, background): “The properties of canine social behavior identified by Goodwin (in press) and Horowitz and Bekoff (2007) are the precise characteristics of therapy dogs’ behavior when interacting with children with autism that overlap with humans-only sociality described by Levinson.”