Anthropomorphism and mental welfare of fishes
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Anthropomorphism Undermines Understanding of Fishes
Anthropomorphism, the use of human characteristics as a foundation for interpreting behavior and mental capacities of animals, is a bias undermining our understanding of other species, especially species as evolutionarily distant from humans as fishes. Anthropomorphism is not justified by allusions to evolutionary continuity among vertebrates, because no living vertebrate was ever a descendant ...
متن کاملTraining of Mental Welfare Officers
Training of Mental Welfare Officers for many years there has been disquiet over the anomalous position of social workers in the Mental Health Services, and the Mackintosh Committee's Report published in 1951, recommended not only that there should be more psychiatric social workers but that a large number of trained mental welfare officers were also required. These Officers employed by Local He...
متن کاملRobots and Anthropomorphism
Our natural tendency to anthropomorphism, grounded in Theory of Mind and related psychological mechanisms, is crucial to our interactions with robots. Some relatively superficial aspects of robots (e.g. physical appearance) can trigger animistic, even empathetic, responses on the part of human beings. Other factors are more subtle, e.g. various aspects of the language (if any) used by the artif...
متن کاملAnthropomorphism Revisited
The MIT scientist Donald Griffin, widely-recognized for his experimental confirmation that bats use echo location in tracking insects and avoiding obstacles in the dark (Griffin, 1958/1974), later wrote widely defending the view that other animals are consciously aware and intelligent, like humans (Griffin, 1976, 2001). Based on the assumption that an example of possible human-like cleverness i...
متن کاملMental Welfare and the Endocrine Organs
It is only in recent years that our knowledge of those small bodies which are known as the Endocrine glands has been sufficient to be of any real practical value to the physician. We are still, moreover, only on the threshold of ^the secrets which these bodies contain; but so fascinating is the study of the ductiess glands and their role in the psycho-physical mechanism of the individual, that ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0177-5103,1616-1580
DOI: 10.3354/dao075139