Adelma M Hills
Biographic Data
| ID | 116397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adelma M Hills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adelma M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hills |
| SIGNATURE | HILLS A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Judgments of Cruelty Toward Animals
There is widespread agreement that cruelty toward animals is unacceptable (Hills 1994). Less clear is how people understand and make judgments about cruelty. A question of theoretical and practical importance is whether people judge the cruelty of what happens independently of the cruelty of the person responsible. In this study, 501 male and female business students read a scenario depicting suffering caused to an animal. The person responsible …
Empathy and Belief in the Mental Experience of Animals
Aspects of empathy are examined, including the relationship between empathy and perceived similarity or identification. Cognitive judgments of similarity appear to predispose us to the experience of empathy. An important aspect of similarity where animals are concerned is their perceived mental endowment (Fenton & Hills 1988). Therefore, a positive relationship was hypothesized between empathy for animals and "belief in animal mind" (i.e., belief…
The Motivational Bases of Attitudes Toward Animals
The need for a theoretical grounding of the human-animal relationship is addressed from the perspective of the motivational bases of attitudes toward animals. Building on recent developments in attitude theory, and integrating themes from the historical and cultural background to Western attitudes, a model is developed that proposes three fundamental motivational bases, where responses to animals depend on instrumental self interest, empathyliden…
The Relationship between Thing-Person Orientation and the Perception of Animals
A tendency for people to perceive animals as being either thinglike or personlike is identified as a theme in the literature. It was hypothesized that this is related to an individual's differential orientation toward persons (P) and things (T), per Little's (1968, 1972, 1976) "specialization" theory. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses on data from 101 subjects revealed that females, generalists (high T and P), and person specialists (high…
The perception of animals amongst animal liberationists and hunters
To investigate animal liberationists' and hunters' perceptions of animals a repertory grid methodology and multidimensional scaling analysis were used to identify the dimensions of meaning used by 34 individuals from these two groups in their construal of 12 animal categories, selected so as to be representative of the animal kingdom. Five dimensions of meaning were identified, although their relative salience was found to differ between the two …
Empathy and Belief in the Mental Experience of Animals
Aspects of empathy are examined, including the relationship between empathy and perceived similarity or identification. Cognitive judgments of similarity appear to predispose us to the experience of empathy. An important aspect of similarity where animals are concerned is their perceived mental endowment (Fenton & Hills 1988). Therefore, a positive relationship was hypothesized between empathy for animals and "belief in animal mind" (i.e., belief…
The Motivational Bases of Attitudes Toward Animals
The need for a theoretical grounding of the human-animal relationship is addressed from the perspective of the motivational bases of attitudes toward animals. Building on recent developments in attitude theory, and integrating themes from the historical and cultural background to Western attitudes, a model is developed that proposes three fundamental motivational bases, where responses to animals depend on instrumental self interest, empathyliden…
The Relationship between Thing-Person Orientation and the Perception of Animals
A tendency for people to perceive animals as being either thinglike or personlike is identified as a theme in the literature. It was hypothesized that this is related to an individual's differential orientation toward persons (P) and things (T), per Little's (1968, 1972, 1976) "specialization" theory. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses on data from 101 subjects revealed that females, generalists (high T and P), and person specialists (high…
The perception of animals amongst animal liberationists and hunters
To investigate animal liberationists' and hunters' perceptions of animals a repertory grid methodology and multidimensional scaling analysis were used to identify the dimensions of meaning used by 34 individuals from these two groups in their construal of 12 animal categories, selected so as to be representative of the animal kingdom. Five dimensions of meaning were identified, although their relative salience was found to differ between the two …
Judgments of Cruelty Toward Animals
There is widespread agreement that cruelty toward animals is unacceptable (Hills 1994). Less clear is how people understand and make judgments about cruelty. A question of theoretical and practical importance is whether people judge the cruelty of what happens independently of the cruelty of the person responsible. In this study, 501 male and female business students read a scenario depicting suffering caused to an animal. The person responsible …
The perception of animals amongst animal liberationists and hunters
To investigate animal liberationists' and hunters' perceptions of animals a repertory grid methodology and multidimensional scaling analysis were used to identify the dimensions of meaning used by 34 individuals from these two groups in their construal of 12 animal categories, selected so as to be representative of the animal kingdom. Five dimensions of meaning were identified, although their relative salience was found to differ between the two …
The Relationship between Thing-Person Orientation and the Perception of Animals
A tendency for people to perceive animals as being either thinglike or personlike is identified as a theme in the literature. It was hypothesized that this is related to an individual's differential orientation toward persons (P) and things (T), per Little's (1968, 1972, 1976) "specialization" theory. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses on data from 101 subjects revealed that females, generalists (high T and P), and person specialists (high…
The Motivational Bases of Attitudes Toward Animals
The need for a theoretical grounding of the human-animal relationship is addressed from the perspective of the motivational bases of attitudes toward animals. Building on recent developments in attitude theory, and integrating themes from the historical and cultural background to Western attitudes, a model is developed that proposes three fundamental motivational bases, where responses to animals depend on instrumental self interest, empathyliden…
Empathy and Belief in the Mental Experience of Animals
Aspects of empathy are examined, including the relationship between empathy and perceived similarity or identification. Cognitive judgments of similarity appear to predispose us to the experience of empathy. An important aspect of similarity where animals are concerned is their perceived mental endowment (Fenton & Hills 1988). Therefore, a positive relationship was hypothesized between empathy for animals and "belief in animal mind" (i.e., belief…
Judgments of Cruelty Toward Animals
There is widespread agreement that cruelty toward animals is unacceptable (Hills 1994). Less clear is how people understand and make judgments about cruelty. A question of theoretical and practical importance is whether people judge the cruelty of what happens independently of the cruelty of the person responsible. In this study, 501 male and female business students read a scenario depicting suffering caused to an animal. The person responsible …
Animal and Plant Science Education (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Animal welfare (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Empathy (2 works)