@article{ref1,
title="Toward a new framework for understanding human-wild animal relations",
journal="American behavioral scientist",
year="2019",
author="Waldhorn, Daniela R.",
volume="63",
number="8",
pages="1080-1100",
abstract="Most animals live in the wild and a majority probably have lives of net suffering. An increasing number of ethicists argue that humans have a duty to help them. Nevertheless, people's attitudes and perceptions toward wild animal suffering have rarely been studied. Psychology has traditionally framed the analysis of human-wild animal relations within environmental psychology, conceptualizing wild animals as merely one further component of nature. Though this approach is suitable for environmental and conservation purposes, I argue that it fails to track our attitudes toward animals as individuals with a well-being of their own. I use Kellert's framework about factors affecting attitudes toward wildlife to review and integrate existing findings in social psychology. I also suggest how other factors merit further investigation. Finally, I defend that the study of human-wild animal relations is a suitable topic of psychosocial research independently of other anthropocentric or conservationist purposes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-7642",
doi="10.1177/0002764219830465",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764219830465"
}