Animal Attitudes: Motion and Emotion in Eighteenth-Century Animal Representation

Literary responses to animal experimentation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain.

The fact that British men of letters in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries commented on the subject of animal experimentation is well known. Apart from anti-vivisectionists and modern advocates of animal rights, who have been keen to cite the most critical of these responses, ' scholars have considered them in three main areas of research. In the history of ideas some of those literary so...

Animal Behaviour: Emotion in Invertebrates?

Bees exposed to vigorous shaking designed to simulate a dangerous event judge ambiguous stimuli as predicting a negative outcome - a 'pessimistic' cognitive bias that is characteristic of anxious or depressed humans and other vertebrates in putative negative emotional states.

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order.

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Commentary: Constructing nonhuman animal emotion

What is an animal emotion?

Emotions suffuse much of the language employed by students of animal behavior--from "social bonding" to "alarm calls"--yet are carefully avoided as an explicit topic in scientific discourse. Given the increasing interest in human emotional intelligence and the explicit attention in neuroscience to the emotions, both human and nonhuman, the taboo that has reigned for so long in animal behavior r...