Personality, empathy and attitudes to animal welfare

By Adrian Furnham, C. McManus, D. Scott. 2003

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Soft skills in higher education: importance and improvement ratings as a function of individual differences and academic performance (2010, unknown): “This 15‐item scale (three items per factor), five‐point Likert‐type scale (Furnham, & McManus, 2004 ; Furnham, McManus, & Scott, 2003 ), assesses the five major personality dimensions: neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness.”
Unanswered questions: A preliminary investigation of personality and individual difference predictors of 9/11 conspiracist beliefs (2010, result): “Although these a coefficients are less than ideal, it should be remembered that they were calculated using three items each and that they are in line with population norms reported in previous work (e.g. Furnham et al., 2003).”
The mind behind anthropomorphic thinking: attribution of mental states to other species (2015, background): “attitudes towards animals, show less approval towards the use of animals for medical and scientific research, and score higher in the animal attitude scale (Driscoll, 1995; Furnham et al., 2003; Knight, Vrij, Cherryman, & Nunkoosing, 2004; Swami, Furnham, & Christopher, 2008; Taylor & Signal, 2005).”