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Teaching Empathy
for Animals
Gather information here about empathy for and with animals.
Community Organizing, Research, Education and Advocacy for Empathy and
Compassion for all Animals.
Abuse of children, woman, animals, minorities, etc. are all related and
come from a deficit of empathy & compassion.
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Teaching Kids Compassion Toward Animals |
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Teaching kids to have compassion and empathy
for their furry, feathered, and finned friends is vital for
preventing cruelty to animals as well as in raising them to
respect and treat those who are different from them with kindness.
According to the National PTA Congress, "Children trained to
extend justice, kindness, and mercy to animals become more just,
kind, and considerate in their relations to each other... |
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2011-02-06 - Teaching Kids to Have Empathy for Animals |
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The
article also discusses how people come to have empathy, and it
turns out it is a combination of our experiences, what we see, and
what we are taught, among other things. It is important to teach
empathy to our children. There are ways we can go about doing
this. Here are several I came up with: |
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2011-02-19 - Study: ‘Canis empathicus’? A proposal on dogs' capacity to
empathize with humans |
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Empathy has long
attracted the attention of philosophers and psychologists, and
more recently, of evolutionary biologists. Interestingly, studies
suggest that empathy is a phylogenetically continuous phenomenon,
ranging across animals from automatic emotional activation in
response to the emotions of others, to perspective-taking that
becomes increasingly complex with increasing brain size. |
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2011-02-18 - Empathic Dogs 'share their owners' emotions'
- telegraph.co.uk |
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When the animals are
confronted with a human displaying strong feelings, they
themselves produce a similar emotional response, the researchers
found.... The researchers believe there are three main reasons for
dogs empathising with human... their empathy towards man has been
fine-tuned over generations. |
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2011-02-19 - Dogs Probably Feel Sorry For Us |
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Dogs appear to empathize with us,
to the point that some therapy dogs even seem to take on the
emotions of their sick or distressed human charges, according to a
new paper in the latest issue of Biology Letters. |
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2011-03-09 -
Chickens are capable of feeling
empathy, scientists believe -
Telegraph.co.uk |
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Domestic chickens display signs of
empathy, the ability to ''feel another's pain'' that is at the
heart of compassion, a study has found. The discovery has
important implications for the welfare of farm and laboratory
animals, say researchers.
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