While animal sentience research has flourished in the last decade, scepticism about our ability to accurately measure animal feelings has unfortunately remained fairly common. Here, we argue that evolutionary considerations about the functions of feelings will give us more reason for optimism and outline a method for how this might be achieved.</p
“Sentience” means the capacity to feel, and feelings are private affairs. Sentience is hence extreme...
Positive affect is fundamental to ensuring good animal welfare. Discrete and dimensional theories of...
The idea of animals having emotions was once rejected as being anthropomorphic and unscientific. How...
While animal sentience research has flourished in the last decade, scepticism about our ability to a...
In a recent article, Rowan et al. (2022) have expressed scepticism about our ability to accurately m...
Despite considerable advances in the study of animal sentience, reluctance to credit non-human anima...
Knowledge of animal sentience is fundamental to many disciplines and imperative to the animal welfar...
It is high time to explore the sentience of invertebrate animals, but this topic cannot be discussed...
20 September 2010 Keywords: affective state animal welfare tion in a stat wit pessimistically. We in...
Just like a galaxy, when we look closer at the behaviour of an animal, we can see that the level of ...
The study of emotion is rife with debate over issues as fundamental as how to define emotion, and su...
The concept of sentience concerns the capacity to have feelings. There is evidence for sophisticated...
Do nonhuman animals (henceforth, animals) have emotions, and if so, are these similar to ours? This ...
Abstract: Evolution, brain science, and the logic of behavior in free-living animals all converge to...
Today, we see a growing concern for the quality of life of nonhuman animals and an accompanying call...
“Sentience” means the capacity to feel, and feelings are private affairs. Sentience is hence extreme...
Positive affect is fundamental to ensuring good animal welfare. Discrete and dimensional theories of...
The idea of animals having emotions was once rejected as being anthropomorphic and unscientific. How...
While animal sentience research has flourished in the last decade, scepticism about our ability to a...
In a recent article, Rowan et al. (2022) have expressed scepticism about our ability to accurately m...
Despite considerable advances in the study of animal sentience, reluctance to credit non-human anima...
Knowledge of animal sentience is fundamental to many disciplines and imperative to the animal welfar...
It is high time to explore the sentience of invertebrate animals, but this topic cannot be discussed...
20 September 2010 Keywords: affective state animal welfare tion in a stat wit pessimistically. We in...
Just like a galaxy, when we look closer at the behaviour of an animal, we can see that the level of ...
The study of emotion is rife with debate over issues as fundamental as how to define emotion, and su...
The concept of sentience concerns the capacity to have feelings. There is evidence for sophisticated...
Do nonhuman animals (henceforth, animals) have emotions, and if so, are these similar to ours? This ...
Abstract: Evolution, brain science, and the logic of behavior in free-living animals all converge to...
Today, we see a growing concern for the quality of life of nonhuman animals and an accompanying call...
“Sentience” means the capacity to feel, and feelings are private affairs. Sentience is hence extreme...
Positive affect is fundamental to ensuring good animal welfare. Discrete and dimensional theories of...
The idea of animals having emotions was once rejected as being anthropomorphic and unscientific. How...
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