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From Pets to Pests: Testing the Scope of the “Pets as Ambassadors” Hypothesis
Anthrozoös ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 , DOI: 10.1080/08927936.2021.1926708
Catarina Possidónio 1 , Jared Piazza 2 , João Graça 1, 3, 4 , Marília Prada 1
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ABSTRACT

Positive relationships with pets can sometimes foster more positive judgments of other animals. The present study sought to examine the scope of this “pets as ambassadors” effect in relation to four meaningful animal categories (companion, farmed, predator, and pest) derived from the Animal Images Database (Animal.ID). The Animal.ID contains ratings from 376 Portuguese individuals on pet attachment and several dimensions related to animal attributes and moral concern for 120 different animals, which offered insights into the scope and nature of the “pets as ambassadors” effect. Pet attachment was related positively to ethical concern for animals and lower levels of speciesism. The relationship between pet attachment and animal attributions were expressed, beyond companion animals, most consistently for predators and farmed animals, and least of all pests. The benefits of pet attachment centered mostly on aesthetic judgments and benevolent feelings toward predators and farmed animals, sentience attributions for pests, and concerns about the killing of all animal groups for human consumption. Pet attachment did not reliably relate to the attributions individuals made about the intelligence or dangerousness of animals, or their similarity to humans. The findings help clarify how pets might serve as ambassadors for other animals.



中文翻译:

从宠物到害虫:检验“宠物为大使”假说的范围

摘要

与宠物的积极关系有时可以培养对其他动物的更积极的判断。本研究试图从动物图像数据库 (Animal.ID) 中得出与四种有意义的动物类别(伴侣、养殖、捕食者和害虫)相关的“宠物作为大使”效应的范围。Animal.ID 包含 376 名葡萄牙人对宠物依恋的评级,以及与 120 种不同动物的动物属性和道德关注相关的多个维度,这提供了对“宠物作为大使”效应的范围和性质的见解。宠物依恋与对动物的伦理关注和较低的物种歧视呈正相关。宠物依恋和动物属性之间的关系得到了表达,除了伴侣动物,捕食者和养殖动物最一致,和所有害虫中最少的。宠物依恋的好处主要集中在对捕食者和养殖动物的审美判断和仁慈的感觉、对害虫的感知归因以及对杀死所有动物群体供​​人类食用的担忧上。宠物依恋与个人对动物的智力或危险性或其与人类的相似性的归因并不可靠。这些发现有助于阐明宠物如何充当其他动物的大使。宠物依恋与个人对动物的智力或危险性或其与人类的相似性的归因并不可靠。这些发现有助于阐明宠物如何充当其他动物的大使。宠物依恋与个人对动物的智力或危险性或其与人类的相似性的归因并不可靠。这些发现有助于阐明宠物如何充当其他动物的大使。

更新日期:2021-06-01
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