Abstract A better understanding of animal emotion is an important goal in disciplines ranging
from neuroscience to animal welfare science. The conscious experience of emotion cannot
be assessed directly, but neural, behavioural and physiological indicators of emotion can ...

... Complementary methods and convergent evidence in the study of primate social cognition. ...
Grooming at a preferred site reduces heart rate in horses.Animal Behaviour, 46, 1191-1194. ... In
P. Ekman & RJ Davidson (Eds.), The nature of emotion— Fundamental questions (pp. ...

... Their attitudes are so different that,even onthelevel of emotion, theycan't find much ... states are
universally accepted as majordistinguishing characteristics of human emotions, in animal research
theissue ... Such states remain difficult—some claim impossible—to study empirically. ...

This paper reviews the debate that is currently taking place in the field of philosophy of mind
on different conceptual models of consciousness. More and more philosophers argue that
the explanation of subjective phenomena requires two complementary perspectives of ...

... Most emotion researchers consider that emotions arise in situations that are 'important' to the ...
of harm/punishment – perhaps by providing a 'common currency' that the animal uses to ... In order
to study emotional states scientifically, the development of accurate measures is an ...

... Notes, Met lit.opg. en reg. ISBN, 0195150775; 0195163370(pbk). Keyword(s), animals -
awareness - emotions - knowledge - animal behaviour - diversity - play - animal welfare - animal
ecology - mind - cognition - social cooperation - moral - animal protection - human impact. ...

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S129–139. 42; F. Wemelsfelder, LIA Birke; Environmental challenge. ...

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Advances in the Study of Aggression, Academic Press, Orlando (1986), pp. 121–159. ... Animal
Behaviour, 25 (1977), pp. 622–634. ... Emotion, attention and temperament. ...

... This growth has facilitated investigation of human analogs to affective behaviors studied in animals,
but, perhaps more importantly, has allowed study of the emotion regulatory power of higher
cognitive control processes that are difficult to study in animal models. ...

... Abstract. The scientific study of animal emotion is an important emerging discipline in subjects
ranging from neuroscience to animal welfare research. In the absence of direct measures of
conscious emotion, indirect behavioural and physiological measures are used. ...