Empathy with Animals and with Humans: Are They Linked?

By Elizabeth S. Paul. 2000

265 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental health

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. N. Taylor
2. T. Signal
3. L. Morton
4. B. Daly
5. H. Herzog

In Genetics

1. B. Daly
2. N. Taylor
3. T. Signal
4. L. Morton
5. H. Herzog
6. P. Prokop

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. L. Morton
2. N. Taylor
3. T. Signal
4. B. Daly

Citations in the corpus

• The Relationship between Empathy, Perception of Pain and Attitudes toward Pets among Norwegian Dog Owners (2010, background): “, Daly and Morton 2003; Taylor, Williams and Gray 2004), gender is found to be one of the more stable factors influencing attitudes, empathy, and pain rating (Mathews and Herzog 1997; Paul 2000; Robinson and Wise 2003; Taylor and Signal 2005; Herzog 2007).”
• Empathy and attitudes to animals (2005, background): “What was not expected was the finding that whether an individual had a companion animal throughout their childhood did not result in any significant differences, which contradicts earlier research (e.g., Paul 2000).”
• Psychosocial and Psychophysiological Effects of Human-Animal Interactions: The Possible Role of Oxytocin (2012, unknown): “This also applies to the studies by Paul (2000) or Daly and Morton (2003, 2006, 2009).”
• An investigation of human-animal interactions and empathy as related to pet preference, ownership, attachment, and attitudes in children (2006, background): “Paul and Serpell (1993) reported that childhood pet-keeping practices contributed to positive attitudes toward pets in adult life, but Paul (2000) later suggested that while human- and animal-oriented empathy may indeed be linked, results are inconclusive.”
• The effects of the presence of a dog in the classroom (2002, background): “Results from Paul (2000) showed that empathy with animals was related to current pet ownership and to ownership during childhood.”
• Attitudes and activities related to urban wildlife: Pet owners and non-owners (2003, background): “There are indications that a trait like empathy, to a moderate degree, could underlie animal-oriented empathy (Paul 2000), and this trait could have a genetic component (Davis, Luce and Kraus 1994).”
• Attitude to Animals and Empathy: Comparing Animal Protection and General Community Samples (2007, background): “However, it must be noted that there is a lack of consensus about both the direction and the strength of any such links between empathy and attitudes towards the treatment of animals (e.g., Paul 2000; Daly and Morton 2003; Furnham, McManus and Scott 2003; Taylor and Signal 2005).”