James A Serpell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81797 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James A Serpell |
| PRENOMES | James A |
| SOBRENOME | Serpell |
| ASSINATURA | SERPELL J A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2826-1187 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 123 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Medical, Behavioral, and Abuse Status Characteristics
Animal shelters commonly experience difficulties finding homes for dogs with pre-existing medical or behavioral issues. The purpose of this study was to investigate the various factors that contribute to people’s willingness to consider adopting dogs with different behavioral and medical needs and backgrounds. A web-based survey was created using the Qualtrics platform. The sample size for this study was (n = 752). Results from generalized linear…
The Human-Animal Bond
Social bonds between people and their pets are more popular than they have ever been. Yet archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that human-pet bonds have existed throughout history, enduring despite their relative lack of practical utility or material value for humans and, in this sense, presenting a challenge to evolutionary theory. Citing abundant research, the chapter shows that the human-pet relationship should be regarded as “…
Current challenges to research on animal-assisted interventions
Studies of the effects of Animal-Assisted Interventions (AAIs) face a number of theoretical and practical challenges. Proposed theoretical processes for the effects of AAIs include those that address primarily the animal’s ability to facilitate human–human social engagement, those that emphasize animals’ apparent capacity to trigger social attachments and provide nonhuman social support, those that categorize certain animals as supernormal stimul…
Measuring Quality of Life in Owners of Companion Dogs
Numerous studies have examined the link between companiondog ownership and improved physical or psychological health outcomes; however, few have examined the association between dog ownership and owners' overall wellbeing or quality of life (QOL). Moreover, the potential for dog ownership to adversely affect owner QOL has been largely ignored. In general, little is known regarding the specific aspects of QOL that are most affected by dog ownershi…
Interactions between Handler Well-Being and Canine Health and Behavior in Search and Rescue Teams
This study reports on three years of prospective, longitudinal data on the psychological well-being of the human handlers and the health and behavior of the search and rescue dogs deployed in New York City and Washington, DC in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Eighty-five human handlers (63 deployed and 22 controls) and ninetyfour dogs (66 deployed, 28 controls) were assessed at multiple time points including 6 months…
Having Our Dogs and Eating Them Too
Until recently, the study of people's relationships and interactions with other (nonhuman) animals has received scant attention from the social sciences. The preceding articles in this issue illustrate some of the important insights such studies can bring to the field. Animals, by their nature, occupy an intermediate boundary zone between the world of human subjects and the world of insensate objects or “things.” This ambiguity allows us to explo…
Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents
Reviewed by: Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy James A. Serpell Gary Steiner . Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. ix + 332 pp. $37.50 (paperbound, 0-8229-4269-0). Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents is a comprehensive scholarly account of the ongoing Western ph…
Effects of breed, sex, and neuter status on trainability in dogs
In a previous study of canine temperament (Hsu and Serpell 2003), a distinct “trainability” factor was identified, characterized by a dog's willingness to attend to its owner and obey simple commands, combined with a high “fetch” motivation, and low levels of distractibility and/or resistance to correction. This paper explores the distribution of this trait in a large sample of dogs in relation to breed, sex and neuter status. The owners of 1,563…
Factors influencing human attitudes to animals and their welfare
This paper reviews the literature on human attitudes to animals, and postulates the existence of two primary motivational determinants of attitudes labelled ‘affect’ and ‘utility’. It also proposes that the relative strengths of these key attitude dimensions are affected by various modifying variables including the specific attributes of the animal, the individual characteristics and experience of the person evaluating the animal, and a range of …
"Anthropomorphism and Anthropomorphic Selection—Beyond the "Cute Response
This article explores the origin and evolutionary implications of anthropomorphism in the context of our relationships with animal companions. On the human side, anthropomorphic thinking enables animal companions' social behavior to be construed in human terms, thereby allowing these nonhuman animals to function for their human owners or guardians as providers of nonhuman social support. Absence of social support is known to be detrimental to hum…
Anthropomorphism and Anthropomorphic Selection—Beyond the "Cute Response"
This article explores the origin and evolutionary implications of anthropomorphism in the context of our relationships with animal companions. On the human side, anthropomorphic thinking enables animal companions' social behavior to be construed in human terms, thereby allowing these nonhuman animals to function for their human owners or guardians as providers of nonhuman social support. Absence of social support is known to be detrimental to hum…
Animals and Human Society
Why the Wild Things Are
Guest Editor's Introduction
Guest Editors' Foreword
Guest Editors' Foreword
Regarding Animals
Childhood Pet Keeping and Humane Attitudes in Young Adulthood
A questionnaire survey of 385 UK-based university students was used to investigate whether there was an association between pet keeping in childhood and humane attitudes in young adulthood. Subjects gave detailed, retrospective reports of the pets they had kept during their childhoods, and a variety of attitude scales and open-ended questions were used to measure their current attitudes concerning the welfare of both animals and humans. Higher le…
Why Children Keep Pets
Two separate but complementary questionnaire surveys were undertaken to assess the relationship between various demographic and family variables and individual variation in levels of childhood pet ownership. The first survey investigated pet ownership levels in a cross-section of families with schoolaged children. In the second, a large sample of university students were invited to report retrospectively on the pets they and their families had ow…
Beneficial Effects of Pet Ownership on Some Aspects of Human Health and Behaviour
A 10-month prospective study was carried out which examined changes in behaviour and health status in 71 adult subjects following the acquisition of a new pet (either dogs or cats). A group of 26 subjects without pets served as a comparison over the same period. Both pet-owning groups reported a highly significant reduction in minor health problems during the first month following pet acquisition, and this effect was sustained in dog owners throu…
In the Company of Animals
Part I. A Paradox: 1. Of pigs and pets Part II. The Case Against Pets: 2. Substitutes for people 3. Instruments of follie 4. Pets in tribal societies 5. A cuckoo in the nest Part III. An Alternative View: 6. Pets as panacea 7. Health and friendship 8. Four-legged friends Part IV. Exploitation and Sympathy: A Conflict of Interests: 9. The myth of human supremacy 10. Killer with a conscience 11. Licensed to kill 12. The fall from grace
Open Peer Commentary
Pet-Keeping in Non-Western Societies
Throughout history the world's wealthy and ruling classes have demonstrated a powerful affinity for pets. In the modern West, the recent growth of pet populations has coincided with rising standards of living. This apparent association between pet-keeping and material affluence has helped to create the false impression that pet-keeping is an unnecessary luxury-a frivolous invention of the idle rich-which is of little social or cultural significan…
Childhood Pets and Their Influence on Adults' Attitudes
A survey of 120 adult subjects was conducted to investigate the influence of childhood experience with pets (dogs and cats) on an individual's subsequent liking for pets when adult. The results demonstrate a significant association between a person's contact with pet-animals during childhood and his tendency to keep pets, usually of the same species, as an adult. Some theoretical and practical implications are discussed
"Anthropomorphism and Anthropomorphic Selection—Beyond the "Cute Response
This article explores the origin and evolutionary implications of anthropomorphism in the context of our relationships with animal companions. On the human side, anthropomorphic thinking enables animal companions' social behavior to be construed in human terms, thereby allowing these nonhuman animals to function for their human owners or guardians as providers of nonhuman social support. Absence of social support is known to be detrimental to hum…
Animals and Human Society
Having Our Dogs and Eating Them Too
Until recently, the study of people's relationships and interactions with other (nonhuman) animals has received scant attention from the social sciences. The preceding articles in this issue illustrate some of the important insights such studies can bring to the field. Animals, by their nature, occupy an intermediate boundary zone between the world of human subjects and the world of insensate objects or “things.” This ambiguity allows us to explo…
Why Children Keep Pets
Two separate but complementary questionnaire surveys were undertaken to assess the relationship between various demographic and family variables and individual variation in levels of childhood pet ownership. The first survey investigated pet ownership levels in a cross-section of families with schoolaged children. In the second, a large sample of university students were invited to report retrospectively on the pets they and their families had ow…
Pet-Keeping in Non-Western Societies
Throughout history the world's wealthy and ruling classes have demonstrated a powerful affinity for pets. In the modern West, the recent growth of pet populations has coincided with rising standards of living. This apparent association between pet-keeping and material affluence has helped to create the false impression that pet-keeping is an unnecessary luxury-a frivolous invention of the idle rich-which is of little social or cultural significan…
Guest Editor's Introduction
Effects of breed, sex, and neuter status on trainability in dogs
In a previous study of canine temperament (Hsu and Serpell 2003), a distinct “trainability” factor was identified, characterized by a dog's willingness to attend to its owner and obey simple commands, combined with a high “fetch” motivation, and low levels of distractibility and/or resistance to correction. This paper explores the distribution of this trait in a large sample of dogs in relation to breed, sex and neuter status. The owners of 1,563…
Open Peer Commentary
Measuring Quality of Life in Owners of Companion Dogs
Numerous studies have examined the link between companiondog ownership and improved physical or psychological health outcomes; however, few have examined the association between dog ownership and owners' overall wellbeing or quality of life (QOL). Moreover, the potential for dog ownership to adversely affect owner QOL has been largely ignored. In general, little is known regarding the specific aspects of QOL that are most affected by dog ownershi…
Childhood Pets and Their Influence on Adults' Attitudes
A survey of 120 adult subjects was conducted to investigate the influence of childhood experience with pets (dogs and cats) on an individual's subsequent liking for pets when adult. The results demonstrate a significant association between a person's contact with pet-animals during childhood and his tendency to keep pets, usually of the same species, as an adult. Some theoretical and practical implications are discussed
Open Peer Commentary
Pet-Keeping in Non-Western Societies
Throughout history the world's wealthy and ruling classes have demonstrated a powerful affinity for pets. In the modern West, the recent growth of pet populations has coincided with rising standards of living. This apparent association between pet-keeping and material affluence has helped to create the false impression that pet-keeping is an unnecessary luxury-a frivolous invention of the idle rich-which is of little social or cultural significan…
In the Company of Animals
Part I. A Paradox: 1. Of pigs and pets Part II. The Case Against Pets: 2. Substitutes for people 3. Instruments of follie 4. Pets in tribal societies 5. A cuckoo in the nest Part III. An Alternative View: 6. Pets as panacea 7. Health and friendship 8. Four-legged friends Part IV. Exploitation and Sympathy: A Conflict of Interests: 9. The myth of human supremacy 10. Killer with a conscience 11. Licensed to kill 12. The fall from grace
Beneficial Effects of Pet Ownership on Some Aspects of Human Health and Behaviour
A 10-month prospective study was carried out which examined changes in behaviour and health status in 71 adult subjects following the acquisition of a new pet (either dogs or cats). A group of 26 subjects without pets served as a comparison over the same period. Both pet-owning groups reported a highly significant reduction in minor health problems during the first month following pet acquisition, and this effect was sustained in dog owners throu…
Why Children Keep Pets
Two separate but complementary questionnaire surveys were undertaken to assess the relationship between various demographic and family variables and individual variation in levels of childhood pet ownership. The first survey investigated pet ownership levels in a cross-section of families with schoolaged children. In the second, a large sample of university students were invited to report retrospectively on the pets they and their families had ow…
Childhood Pet Keeping and Humane Attitudes in Young Adulthood
A questionnaire survey of 385 UK-based university students was used to investigate whether there was an association between pet keeping in childhood and humane attitudes in young adulthood. Subjects gave detailed, retrospective reports of the pets they had kept during their childhoods, and a variety of attitude scales and open-ended questions were used to measure their current attitudes concerning the welfare of both animals and humans. Higher le…
Regarding Animals
Guest Editor's Introduction
Guest Editors' Foreword
Guest Editors' Foreword
Anthropomorphism and Anthropomorphic Selection—Beyond the "Cute Response"
This article explores the origin and evolutionary implications of anthropomorphism in the context of our relationships with animal companions. On the human side, anthropomorphic thinking enables animal companions' social behavior to be construed in human terms, thereby allowing these nonhuman animals to function for their human owners or guardians as providers of nonhuman social support. Absence of social support is known to be detrimental to hum…
Animals and Human Society
Why the Wild Things Are
"Anthropomorphism and Anthropomorphic Selection—Beyond the "Cute Response
This article explores the origin and evolutionary implications of anthropomorphism in the context of our relationships with animal companions. On the human side, anthropomorphic thinking enables animal companions' social behavior to be construed in human terms, thereby allowing these nonhuman animals to function for their human owners or guardians as providers of nonhuman social support. Absence of social support is known to be detrimental to hum…
Factors influencing human attitudes to animals and their welfare
This paper reviews the literature on human attitudes to animals, and postulates the existence of two primary motivational determinants of attitudes labelled ‘affect’ and ‘utility’. It also proposes that the relative strengths of these key attitude dimensions are affected by various modifying variables including the specific attributes of the animal, the individual characteristics and experience of the person evaluating the animal, and a range of …
Effects of breed, sex, and neuter status on trainability in dogs
In a previous study of canine temperament (Hsu and Serpell 2003), a distinct “trainability” factor was identified, characterized by a dog's willingness to attend to its owner and obey simple commands, combined with a high “fetch” motivation, and low levels of distractibility and/or resistance to correction. This paper explores the distribution of this trait in a large sample of dogs in relation to breed, sex and neuter status. The owners of 1,563…
Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents
Reviewed by: Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy James A. Serpell Gary Steiner . Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. ix + 332 pp. $37.50 (paperbound, 0-8229-4269-0). Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents is a comprehensive scholarly account of the ongoing Western ph…
Having Our Dogs and Eating Them Too
Until recently, the study of people's relationships and interactions with other (nonhuman) animals has received scant attention from the social sciences. The preceding articles in this issue illustrate some of the important insights such studies can bring to the field. Animals, by their nature, occupy an intermediate boundary zone between the world of human subjects and the world of insensate objects or “things.” This ambiguity allows us to explo…
Interactions between Handler Well-Being and Canine Health and Behavior in Search and Rescue Teams
This study reports on three years of prospective, longitudinal data on the psychological well-being of the human handlers and the health and behavior of the search and rescue dogs deployed in New York City and Washington, DC in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Eighty-five human handlers (63 deployed and 22 controls) and ninetyfour dogs (66 deployed, 28 controls) were assessed at multiple time points including 6 months…
The Human-Animal Bond
Social bonds between people and their pets are more popular than they have ever been. Yet archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that human-pet bonds have existed throughout history, enduring despite their relative lack of practical utility or material value for humans and, in this sense, presenting a challenge to evolutionary theory. Citing abundant research, the chapter shows that the human-pet relationship should be regarded as “…
Current challenges to research on animal-assisted interventions
Studies of the effects of Animal-Assisted Interventions (AAIs) face a number of theoretical and practical challenges. Proposed theoretical processes for the effects of AAIs include those that address primarily the animal’s ability to facilitate human–human social engagement, those that emphasize animals’ apparent capacity to trigger social attachments and provide nonhuman social support, those that categorize certain animals as supernormal stimul…
Measuring Quality of Life in Owners of Companion Dogs
Numerous studies have examined the link between companiondog ownership and improved physical or psychological health outcomes; however, few have examined the association between dog ownership and owners' overall wellbeing or quality of life (QOL). Moreover, the potential for dog ownership to adversely affect owner QOL has been largely ignored. In general, little is known regarding the specific aspects of QOL that are most affected by dog ownershi…
Medical, Behavioral, and Abuse Status Characteristics
Animal shelters commonly experience difficulties finding homes for dogs with pre-existing medical or behavioral issues. The purpose of this study was to investigate the various factors that contribute to people’s willingness to consider adopting dogs with different behavioral and medical needs and backgrounds. A web-based survey was created using the Qualtrics platform. The sample size for this study was (n = 752). Results from generalized linear…
Psychology (20 obras) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (17 obras) · Animal welfare (14 obras) · Biology (12 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Pet therapy (10 obras) · Animal-assisted therapy (9 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 obras) · HUBzero (8 obras) · Environmental ethics (7 obras)