Animals may be more reliably emotional than humans

Despite considerable advances in the study of animal sentience, reluctance to credit non-human animals with emotional capacities persists. I argue that this is untenable light (evolutionary) theory and empirical evidence. Humans may differ from their ability reflect on, reason about, deliberately regulate emotions. If anything, however, implies animals’ displays provide a more valid reliable window into internal states than do humans’, whose be strategically altered. Any signs pleasure or distress thus constitute direct readouts wellbeing. It time we start treating accordingly.