%0 Journal Article
%T Toward a New Framework for Understanding Human¨CWild Animal Relations
%A Daniela R. Waldhorn
%J American Behavioral Scientist
%@ 1552-3381
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0002764219830465
%X Most animals live in the wild and a majority probably have lives of net suffering. An increasing number of ethicists argue that humans have a duty to help them. Nevertheless, people¡¯s attitudes and perceptions toward wild animal suffering have rarely been studied. Psychology has traditionally framed the analysis of human¨Cwild animal relations within environmental psychology, conceptualizing wild animals as merely one further component of nature. Though this approach is suitable for environmental and conservation purposes, I argue that it fails to track our attitudes toward animals as individuals with a well-being of their own. I use Kellert¡¯s framework about factors affecting attitudes toward wildlife to review and integrate existing findings in social psychology. I also suggest how other factors merit further investigation. Finally, I defend that the study of human¨Cwild animal relations is a suitable topic of psychosocial research independently of other anthropocentric or conservationist purposes
%K anthrozoology
%K attitudes toward wild animals
%K environmental psychology
%K human¨Cnonhuman animal relations
%K social psychology
%K wild animal welfare
%K wild animal suffering
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002764219830465