"My aim was to create a broad overview of our multiple connections to animals from a social psychological perspective. Animals have shaped our beliefs for as long as we've existed. They appear in our religions, our myths, and even shared our graves. We've relied on their strength, turned them into symbols, and shifted their place in our cultures again and again-sometimes putting them on pedestals, sometimes on our plates."
"Winner of the 2024 Prix Émile Girardeau, this book examines humans' dominance of and affection for animals. The book analyzes paradoxical human behavior toward animals and how empathy toward animals can be manipulated. The author explores how our personalities and political beliefs shape the way we relate to animals. There is an ever-growing multidisciplinary interest in the nature of human-animal relationships."
Human-animal relationships reveal identity and social relations, encompassing attachment and abuse. Connections to animals are shaped by religion, myth, cultural practice, economic use, and symbolism. Attitudes toward the same species have shifted across history, illustrated by worship, persecution, trade, and changing legal or cultural status. Empathy toward animals can be paradoxical and subject to manipulation. Individual personality traits and political beliefs influence how people value, protect, or exploit different animals, producing diverse ethical and social outcomes.
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