Using Animal Portraiture to Activate Emotional Affect

IF 5.2 2区 心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
C. Whitley, Linda Kalof, T. Flach
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Abstract

With growing concern for biodiversity loss, conservationists are faced with increased pressure to depict animals in ways that evoke empathy and lead to conservation. In recent years, conservation photographers have called on scientists to assist them in identifying the best ways to depict animals to elicit an emotional response. Collaborating with conservation photographers, we used an original survey experiment with 1,152 participants to answer this call by comparing how individuals respond to traditional wildlife photography and animal portraiture. Those who were exposed to animal portraits reported increased empathy and decreased positive and relaxed emotions. We engage critical anthropomorphism, arguing that it is an essential tool to encourage conservation efforts and that animal portraiture may be an ideal “attention grabber,” after which wildlife images can serve as “educators.” As the first study to make this quantitative comparison, our findings have important implications for conservationists and particularly conservation photographers.
用动物肖像来激活情感
随着人们对生物多样性丧失的日益担忧,自然保护主义者面临着越来越大的压力,要求他们以唤起同理心并导致保护的方式来描绘动物。近年来,保护摄影师呼吁科学家帮助他们确定描绘动物的最佳方式,以引起情感反应。我们与保护摄影师合作,使用了一项有1152名参与者的原始调查实验,通过比较个人对传统野生动物摄影和动物肖像的反应来回答这个问题。那些接触过动物肖像的人报告说,他们的同理心增加了,积极和放松的情绪减少了。我们进行了批判性的拟人化,认为这是鼓励保护工作的重要工具,动物肖像画可能是一种理想的“吸引注意力的工具”,之后野生动物图像可以作为“教育者”。作为第一项进行定量比较的研究,我们的发现对自然保护主义者,尤其是保护摄影师具有重要意义。
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CiteScore
13.30
自引率
1.80%
发文量
13
期刊介绍: Environment & Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal designed to report rigorous experimental and theoretical work focusing on the influence of the physical environment on human behavior at the individual, group, and institutional levels.
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