Judgments of Cruelty Toward Animals: Sex Differences and Effect of Awareness of Suffering

IF 1.7 2区农林科学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

Anthrozoos Pub Date : 1998-09-01 DOI:10.2752/089279398787000616

A. Hills, Nathan M. Lalich

引用次数: 6

Abstract

ABSTRACTThere 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 was aware of and indifferent to causing suffering in one version of the scenario, but unaware and subsequently distressed in another version. The dependant variables were participant ratings of: (a) the cruelty of what happened; (b) the cruelty of the person responsible; (c) how angry, and (d) how sad they felt on reading the scenario. Sex of participant main effects occurred for all four variables. A main effect of awareness for cruelty of the person, but not for cruelty of what happened, supported the independence of the two cruelty judgments. However, a...

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虐待动物的判断:性别差异与痛苦意识的影响

人们普遍认为虐待动物是不可接受的(Hills 1994)。不太清楚的是，人们是如何理解和判断残忍的。一个具有理论和实践重要性的问题是，人们是否独立于责任人的残忍来判断所发生事情的残忍。在这项研究中，501名男女商科学生阅读了一个描述动物遭受痛苦的场景。在一种情况下，责任人意识到并对造成痛苦无动于衷，但在另一种情况下，他不知道并随后感到痛苦。因变量是参与者对以下方面的评分:(a)所发生事情的残酷程度;(b)责任人的残忍;(c)他们有多生气，以及(d)他们读到这个场景时有多难过。参与者的性别对所有四个变量都产生了主要影响。意识的主要作用是对人的残忍，而不是对所发生的残忍，这支持了两种残忍判断的独立性。然而,……

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Anthrozoos 农林科学-兽医学

CiteScore

3.40

自引率

18.80%

发文量

审稿时长

>36 weeks

期刊介绍： A vital forum for academic dialogue on human-animal relations, Anthrozoös is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that has enjoyed a distinguished history as a pioneer in the field since its launch in 1987. The key premise of Anthrozoös is to address the characteristics and consequences of interactions and relationships between people and non-human animals across areas as varied as anthropology, ethology, medicine, psychology, veterinary medicine and zoology. Articles therefore cover the full range of human–animal relations, from their treatment in the arts and humanities, through to behavioral, biological, social and health sciences.