Dennis C Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 75350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis C Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis C |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0998-382X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
To Me, it Kind of Felt Normal” - Defining the Normalcy of Carcerality with Black Men, Boys, and Youth Workers
When WE See Us: Commentary on Black Adolescent Research by Black Male Youth Activists
Research viewed exclusively through the lenses of adults, even good-meaning adults, in some respects can strip young people of their agency to create knowledge about their world and their conditions. Given this reality, this commentary departs from traditional forms of research about adolescents to make spaces for Black male adolescents and young men to make sense of, and highlight their own connection to, research. It is our hope that scholars a…
Towards Community Rooted Research and Praxis: Reflections on the BSS Safety and Youth Justice Project
This article focuses on the Brothers, Sons, Selves (BSS) Safety and Youth Justice project to describe what we refer to as a Community Rooted and Research Praxis (CRRP) approach. BSS is an organizing coalition for boys, young men, and masculine-identifying youth of color that works to decriminalize communities of color. In 2018, BSS developed a survey to capture how safety and justice is experienced by youth of color across multiple contexts and i…
Maybe You Should Try It This Way Instead”: Youth Activism Amid Managerialist Subterfuge
The authors theorize what we call managerialist subterfuge, drawing on distinct ethnographic studies to examine how adult “partners” leverage the language and strategies of corporate managerialism to undermine youths’ radical visions of change. Critical analysis of patterns in interview and participant observation data across two youth participatory action research projects revealed the ways in which adult interventions functioned to co-opt youth…
The (good) trouble with Black boys: Organizing with Black boys and young men in George Floyd's America
Youth Organizing as a tool for social change has helped to not only change material conditions in some respects, but it has also equipped youth with the critical tools needed to engage in long term social movement building. As a result, youth activists and organizers have been able to increase investments in the highest needs communities, gain access to college, and even defund and abolish school police. In the political moment of COVID-19 and th…
Companion Animals in Obituaries: An Exploratory Study
The benefits of human–animal interaction have been discussed extensively in the literature. In this paper we take a slightly different strategy in documenting that some humans acknowledge the importance of pets by actually referring to them in human obituaries. We begin with a brief overview of the human obituary, followed by the potential for pets as fictive kin to be named as survivors in obituaries. A bi-national, exploratory, content analysis…
The Effect of a Real Dog, Toy Dog and Friendly Person on Insecurely Attached Children During a Stressful Task: An Exploratory Study
The regulation of stress by an attachment figure is a key feature of attachment relationships. Previous research suggests that in some cases animal companionship may be regarded as an attachment relationship. This may be particularly important for persons with an insecure or disorganized attachment pattern who may find it more difficult than securely attached individuals to accept social support from humans. In our study, we investigated whether …
Comparison of Children's Behavior toward Sony's Robotic Dog Aibo and a Real Dog: A Pilot Study
A comparison of children's behavior toward Sony's robotic dog AIBOTM (ERS-210) and a similar sized live dog was made over time. Fourteen children between three and six years of age from a kindergarten and a pre-school play group in Zurich, Switzerland, were visited once a week for eleven weeks with the live dog and subsequently for eleven weeks with AIBO. We investigated the children's spatial proximity toward AIBO and the live dog, and the rate …
Spouses and cats and their effects on human mood
Previous data indicated that cats influence the moods of singly living people only by decreasing negative moods, while not affecting positive moods. In this study, we asked if such an effect can be 1) replicated, 2) is comparable to the effect of a human partner, and 3) related to the owner’s attachment towards the cat. Two hundred and twelve couples with cats, 31 couples without cats, singly living people with cats (47 women, 45 men) and singly …
Singly Living People and Their Cats: A Study of Human Mood and Subsequent Behavior
We sought to examine how cat owners’ moods correlated with subsequent interactions with their cats. Such a relationship has not been previously documented. Data from 47 women and 49 men living alone with their cats were collected. Participants were visited at their homes for one two-hour session each. Approximately five minutes before and after the observation period, the owners filled out a standard questionnaire (EWL, list of adjectives) to ind…
Guest Editors' Foreword
Guest Editors' Foreword
Anthropomorphic Interpretations and Ethological Descriptions of Dog and Cat Behavior by Lay People
Unlike ethologists and veterinarians, lay people supposedly use their own unstructured observations to interpret their companion animals' behavior, often in anthropomorphic terms. Recently, anthropomorphism has evoked new interest amongst scientists as a result of provocative publications concerning "animal mind," that have prompted investigations in the field of cognitive ethology, and much speculation about the emotions of animals. The purpose …
Understanding the Human-Cat Relationship: Human Social Support or Attachment
The goal of this study was to assess whether the widespread popularity of cats can best be explained using either attachment theory or social support theory. To assess the degree of attachment to the cat, and the size of the human social support network, we used five different questionnaires: In a first mailing we sent the LAPS (Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale) questionnaire (Garrity et al. 1989) and the SSQ6 (Social Support Questionnaire; Sar…
How Depressive Moods Affect the Behavior of Singly Living Persons Toward their Cats
This study investigated how depressive feelings affect the behavior of singly living persons toward their cats. Data from 47 women and 49 men, who were visited at home for one two-hour observation session, were used for the analyses. Just prior to and after the observations, participants filled out a standard questionnaire used to assess momentary mood (EWL). The mood was assigned to one of 14 sub-scales, one of which was "depressiveness." Identi…
Geneva ′95-Definitely Worth Attending
Experimental Analysis of Human-Cat Interactions During First Encounters
The goal of our study was to describe tween a human and a cat and to determine the social behavior during the first encounter beinfluence of the sex of the cat, individuality of the cat, activity state of the person, and person type on the cat's behavior; and the influence of the age and sex of the human partner (person type) on his/her behavior.Nineteen colony cats encountered 240 unfamiliar test persons in a standardized one-cat/one-person situ…
News and Analysis
"The Subject of "The Conversation
I think that I know how to look, if it's something I know, and also that every looking oozes with mendacity,... Julio Cortazar, Up' I'm going to present here a variety of overlapping operations, and in each I will be concerned with questions of boundary. Initially, on the level of the textual, I will be reading Francis Coppola's The Conversation as one of a series of early 1970s crime movies which, in presenting their protagonists with unreadable…
Maternal and paternal periods in the development of infant Callimico goeldii
The paternal‐maternal‐infant interactions of contact and nursing are reported from extensive longitudinal observations on two successive Callimico births in one family. For the first two weeks, the maternal period, the infant clings exclusively to the female. In the third week the infant shifts abruptly to the male. Subsequently, during the paternal period most of the maternal‐infant contact involves nursing. The infant Callimico remains almost t…
The Effect of a Real Dog, Toy Dog and Friendly Person on Insecurely Attached Children During a Stressful Task: An Exploratory Study
The regulation of stress by an attachment figure is a key feature of attachment relationships. Previous research suggests that in some cases animal companionship may be regarded as an attachment relationship. This may be particularly important for persons with an insecure or disorganized attachment pattern who may find it more difficult than securely attached individuals to accept social support from humans. In our study, we investigated whether …
Understanding the Human-Cat Relationship: Human Social Support or Attachment
The goal of this study was to assess whether the widespread popularity of cats can best be explained using either attachment theory or social support theory. To assess the degree of attachment to the cat, and the size of the human social support network, we used five different questionnaires: In a first mailing we sent the LAPS (Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale) questionnaire (Garrity et al. 1989) and the SSQ6 (Social Support Questionnaire; Sar…
Maybe You Should Try It This Way Instead”: Youth Activism Amid Managerialist Subterfuge
The authors theorize what we call managerialist subterfuge, drawing on distinct ethnographic studies to examine how adult “partners” leverage the language and strategies of corporate managerialism to undermine youths’ radical visions of change. Critical analysis of patterns in interview and participant observation data across two youth participatory action research projects revealed the ways in which adult interventions functioned to co-opt youth…
Experimental Analysis of Human-Cat Interactions During First Encounters
The goal of our study was to describe tween a human and a cat and to determine the social behavior during the first encounter beinfluence of the sex of the cat, individuality of the cat, activity state of the person, and person type on the cat's behavior; and the influence of the age and sex of the human partner (person type) on his/her behavior.Nineteen colony cats encountered 240 unfamiliar test persons in a standardized one-cat/one-person situ…
The (good) trouble with Black boys: Organizing with Black boys and young men in George Floyd's America
Youth Organizing as a tool for social change has helped to not only change material conditions in some respects, but it has also equipped youth with the critical tools needed to engage in long term social movement building. As a result, youth activists and organizers have been able to increase investments in the highest needs communities, gain access to college, and even defund and abolish school police. In the political moment of COVID-19 and th…
Towards Community Rooted Research and Praxis: Reflections on the BSS Safety and Youth Justice Project
This article focuses on the Brothers, Sons, Selves (BSS) Safety and Youth Justice project to describe what we refer to as a Community Rooted and Research Praxis (CRRP) approach. BSS is an organizing coalition for boys, young men, and masculine-identifying youth of color that works to decriminalize communities of color. In 2018, BSS developed a survey to capture how safety and justice is experienced by youth of color across multiple contexts and i…
Comparison of Children's Behavior toward Sony's Robotic Dog Aibo and a Real Dog: A Pilot Study
A comparison of children's behavior toward Sony's robotic dog AIBOTM (ERS-210) and a similar sized live dog was made over time. Fourteen children between three and six years of age from a kindergarten and a pre-school play group in Zurich, Switzerland, were visited once a week for eleven weeks with the live dog and subsequently for eleven weeks with AIBO. We investigated the children's spatial proximity toward AIBO and the live dog, and the rate …
Spouses and cats and their effects on human mood
Previous data indicated that cats influence the moods of singly living people only by decreasing negative moods, while not affecting positive moods. In this study, we asked if such an effect can be 1) replicated, 2) is comparable to the effect of a human partner, and 3) related to the owner’s attachment towards the cat. Two hundred and twelve couples with cats, 31 couples without cats, singly living people with cats (47 women, 45 men) and singly …
Anthropomorphic Interpretations and Ethological Descriptions of Dog and Cat Behavior by Lay People
Unlike ethologists and veterinarians, lay people supposedly use their own unstructured observations to interpret their companion animals' behavior, often in anthropomorphic terms. Recently, anthropomorphism has evoked new interest amongst scientists as a result of provocative publications concerning "animal mind," that have prompted investigations in the field of cognitive ethology, and much speculation about the emotions of animals. The purpose …
How Depressive Moods Affect the Behavior of Singly Living Persons Toward their Cats
This study investigated how depressive feelings affect the behavior of singly living persons toward their cats. Data from 47 women and 49 men, who were visited at home for one two-hour observation session, were used for the analyses. Just prior to and after the observations, participants filled out a standard questionnaire used to assess momentary mood (EWL). The mood was assigned to one of 14 sub-scales, one of which was "depressiveness." Identi…
Companion Animals in Obituaries: An Exploratory Study
The benefits of human–animal interaction have been discussed extensively in the literature. In this paper we take a slightly different strategy in documenting that some humans acknowledge the importance of pets by actually referring to them in human obituaries. We begin with a brief overview of the human obituary, followed by the potential for pets as fictive kin to be named as survivors in obituaries. A bi-national, exploratory, content analysis…
Maternal and paternal periods in the development of infant Callimico goeldii
The paternal‐maternal‐infant interactions of contact and nursing are reported from extensive longitudinal observations on two successive Callimico births in one family. For the first two weeks, the maternal period, the infant clings exclusively to the female. In the third week the infant shifts abruptly to the male. Subsequently, during the paternal period most of the maternal‐infant contact involves nursing. The infant Callimico remains almost t…
Singly Living People and Their Cats: A Study of Human Mood and Subsequent Behavior
We sought to examine how cat owners’ moods correlated with subsequent interactions with their cats. Such a relationship has not been previously documented. Data from 47 women and 49 men living alone with their cats were collected. Participants were visited at their homes for one two-hour session each. Approximately five minutes before and after the observation period, the owners filled out a standard questionnaire (EWL, list of adjectives) to ind…
To Me, it Kind of Felt Normal” - Defining the Normalcy of Carcerality with Black Men, Boys, and Youth Workers
When WE See Us: Commentary on Black Adolescent Research by Black Male Youth Activists
Research viewed exclusively through the lenses of adults, even good-meaning adults, in some respects can strip young people of their agency to create knowledge about their world and their conditions. Given this reality, this commentary departs from traditional forms of research about adolescents to make spaces for Black male adolescents and young men to make sense of, and highlight their own connection to, research. It is our hope that scholars a…
Maternal and paternal periods in the development of infant Callimico goeldii
The paternal‐maternal‐infant interactions of contact and nursing are reported from extensive longitudinal observations on two successive Callimico births in one family. For the first two weeks, the maternal period, the infant clings exclusively to the female. In the third week the infant shifts abruptly to the male. Subsequently, during the paternal period most of the maternal‐infant contact involves nursing. The infant Callimico remains almost t…
"The Subject of "The Conversation
I think that I know how to look, if it's something I know, and also that every looking oozes with mendacity,... Julio Cortazar, Up' I'm going to present here a variety of overlapping operations, and in each I will be concerned with questions of boundary. Initially, on the level of the textual, I will be reading Francis Coppola's The Conversation as one of a series of early 1970s crime movies which, in presenting their protagonists with unreadable…
News and Analysis
Experimental Analysis of Human-Cat Interactions During First Encounters
The goal of our study was to describe tween a human and a cat and to determine the social behavior during the first encounter beinfluence of the sex of the cat, individuality of the cat, activity state of the person, and person type on the cat's behavior; and the influence of the age and sex of the human partner (person type) on his/her behavior.Nineteen colony cats encountered 240 unfamiliar test persons in a standardized one-cat/one-person situ…
Geneva ′95-Definitely Worth Attending
Guest Editors' Foreword
Guest Editors' Foreword
Anthropomorphic Interpretations and Ethological Descriptions of Dog and Cat Behavior by Lay People
Unlike ethologists and veterinarians, lay people supposedly use their own unstructured observations to interpret their companion animals' behavior, often in anthropomorphic terms. Recently, anthropomorphism has evoked new interest amongst scientists as a result of provocative publications concerning "animal mind," that have prompted investigations in the field of cognitive ethology, and much speculation about the emotions of animals. The purpose …
Understanding the Human-Cat Relationship: Human Social Support or Attachment
The goal of this study was to assess whether the widespread popularity of cats can best be explained using either attachment theory or social support theory. To assess the degree of attachment to the cat, and the size of the human social support network, we used five different questionnaires: In a first mailing we sent the LAPS (Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale) questionnaire (Garrity et al. 1989) and the SSQ6 (Social Support Questionnaire; Sar…
How Depressive Moods Affect the Behavior of Singly Living Persons Toward their Cats
This study investigated how depressive feelings affect the behavior of singly living persons toward their cats. Data from 47 women and 49 men, who were visited at home for one two-hour observation session, were used for the analyses. Just prior to and after the observations, participants filled out a standard questionnaire used to assess momentary mood (EWL). The mood was assigned to one of 14 sub-scales, one of which was "depressiveness." Identi…
Singly Living People and Their Cats: A Study of Human Mood and Subsequent Behavior
We sought to examine how cat owners’ moods correlated with subsequent interactions with their cats. Such a relationship has not been previously documented. Data from 47 women and 49 men living alone with their cats were collected. Participants were visited at their homes for one two-hour session each. Approximately five minutes before and after the observation period, the owners filled out a standard questionnaire (EWL, list of adjectives) to ind…
Spouses and cats and their effects on human mood
Previous data indicated that cats influence the moods of singly living people only by decreasing negative moods, while not affecting positive moods. In this study, we asked if such an effect can be 1) replicated, 2) is comparable to the effect of a human partner, and 3) related to the owner’s attachment towards the cat. Two hundred and twelve couples with cats, 31 couples without cats, singly living people with cats (47 women, 45 men) and singly …
Comparison of Children's Behavior toward Sony's Robotic Dog Aibo and a Real Dog: A Pilot Study
A comparison of children's behavior toward Sony's robotic dog AIBOTM (ERS-210) and a similar sized live dog was made over time. Fourteen children between three and six years of age from a kindergarten and a pre-school play group in Zurich, Switzerland, were visited once a week for eleven weeks with the live dog and subsequently for eleven weeks with AIBO. We investigated the children's spatial proximity toward AIBO and the live dog, and the rate …
The Effect of a Real Dog, Toy Dog and Friendly Person on Insecurely Attached Children During a Stressful Task: An Exploratory Study
The regulation of stress by an attachment figure is a key feature of attachment relationships. Previous research suggests that in some cases animal companionship may be regarded as an attachment relationship. This may be particularly important for persons with an insecure or disorganized attachment pattern who may find it more difficult than securely attached individuals to accept social support from humans. In our study, we investigated whether …
Companion Animals in Obituaries: An Exploratory Study
The benefits of human–animal interaction have been discussed extensively in the literature. In this paper we take a slightly different strategy in documenting that some humans acknowledge the importance of pets by actually referring to them in human obituaries. We begin with a brief overview of the human obituary, followed by the potential for pets as fictive kin to be named as survivors in obituaries. A bi-national, exploratory, content analysis…
Maybe You Should Try It This Way Instead”: Youth Activism Amid Managerialist Subterfuge
The authors theorize what we call managerialist subterfuge, drawing on distinct ethnographic studies to examine how adult “partners” leverage the language and strategies of corporate managerialism to undermine youths’ radical visions of change. Critical analysis of patterns in interview and participant observation data across two youth participatory action research projects revealed the ways in which adult interventions functioned to co-opt youth…
The (good) trouble with Black boys: Organizing with Black boys and young men in George Floyd's America
Youth Organizing as a tool for social change has helped to not only change material conditions in some respects, but it has also equipped youth with the critical tools needed to engage in long term social movement building. As a result, youth activists and organizers have been able to increase investments in the highest needs communities, gain access to college, and even defund and abolish school police. In the political moment of COVID-19 and th…
When WE See Us: Commentary on Black Adolescent Research by Black Male Youth Activists
Research viewed exclusively through the lenses of adults, even good-meaning adults, in some respects can strip young people of their agency to create knowledge about their world and their conditions. Given this reality, this commentary departs from traditional forms of research about adolescents to make spaces for Black male adolescents and young men to make sense of, and highlight their own connection to, research. It is our hope that scholars a…
Towards Community Rooted Research and Praxis: Reflections on the BSS Safety and Youth Justice Project
This article focuses on the Brothers, Sons, Selves (BSS) Safety and Youth Justice project to describe what we refer to as a Community Rooted and Research Praxis (CRRP) approach. BSS is an organizing coalition for boys, young men, and masculine-identifying youth of color that works to decriminalize communities of color. In 2018, BSS developed a survey to capture how safety and justice is experienced by youth of color across multiple contexts and i…
To Me, it Kind of Felt Normal” - Defining the Normalcy of Carcerality with Black Men, Boys, and Youth Workers
Psychology (16 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Animal welfare (6 works) · Biology (6 works) · Pet therapy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Animal-assisted therapy (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works)