Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2022/Animal emotion

Recommendation of a limitations section

Hey there, in your overview you mention that the study of emotions in non mammals is limited. It may be worthwhile to have this as a separate header/sub header and explore why this may be the case. U3196624 (discuss • contribs) 17:22, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

References

Hi, It looks like you are underway! Just make sure that your references and any other table, graph, or images that you may choose to add in later are in APA 7 formatting. If you are stuck, the UC Library guide is a great place to start. U3216256 (discuss • contribs) 04:19, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

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Title The title is correctly worded and formatted The subtitle is missing User page Excellent – used effectively Brief description about self provided – consider expanding Link provided to Twitter - maybe also professional profile(s)? Link provided to book chapter Social contribution None summarised with direct link(s) to evidence – looking ahead to the book chapter submission see how to earn marks for social contribution Headings Promising 2-level heading structure – could benefit from further development by expanding the structure Consider starting with the evolution and emotion section, then moving to emotion in some specific types of animals Consider rephrasing some of the headings as questions (which could also be focus questions introduced in the Overview) Key points Basic development of key points for each section, with relevant citations Overview - Consider adding: an evocative description of the problem and what will be covered focus questions an image an example or case study Strive for an integrated balance of theory, research, and application/example Excellent use of in-text interwiki links for the first mention of key terms to relevant Wikipedia articles and/or to other relevant book chapters Include more in-text interwiki links for the first mention of key terms to relevant Wikipedia articles and/or to other relevant book chapters. Promising use of examples/case studies (e.g., specific emotions in specific animals/types of animals) Perhaps also consider, what are the implications of animal emotion for human emotion? Conclusion (the most important section): Hasn't been developed What might the take-home, practical messages be? In a nutshell, what are the answer(s) to the question(s) in the sub-title and/or focus questions? Figure Excellent – A relevant figure is presented and it is briefly captioned - what emotions are depicted? Cite each figure at least once in the main text References There seems to be a mixture of APA style references in References and wiki style references in External links; use one style or the other For APA referencing style, check and correct: italicisation doi formatting page numbers should be separated by an en-dash (–) rather than a hyphen (-) no bold etc. Resources See also OK Include source in brackets after link Also link to relevant Wikipedia pages Move external link to External links (or into References if it is a peer-reviewed article) External links Excellent None provided

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 05:51, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Source and suggestion

Hi there ! I am absolutely intrigued by your topic and found an interesting source that you might find beneficial ! This study looked at self-reports from a large sample of dog and cat owners and were asked questions about their pet's ability to display basic emotions and complex emotions and to what extent their pets mirrored these emotions. The results showed that the higher the attachment between owner and dog, the dog was more likely to display and understand all of these emotions. Cats on the other hand were only able to display, joy, sadness, disappointment, compassion, surprise and shame. I hope this helps you :)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08927936.2015.1075299 U3210431 (discuss • contribs) 22:36, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Recommended research

What an awesome topic! Research in this area would be really fascinating to conduct! I found two different studies which may be helpful your chapter. The first is an article about how elephants can count food using their sense of smell. While this may seem unrelated to your topic, it highlights a challenge in research on animal cognition and emotion because perception of the world can vary substantially based on primary sensory systems being different between species. Plotnik. (2019). Elephants have a nose for quantity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., 116(25), 12566–12571. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818284116

Elephants are cool so here is another article on how they experience death. They seem to have a general awareness of death and show compassion. Douglas-Hamilton. (2006). Behavioural reactions of elephants towards a dying and deceased matriarch. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 100(1-2), 87–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2006.04.014

I've also heard that elephants, and crows? sometimes conduct funerals? I have no idea if this is true or not? Perhaps you could address some common urban legends such as these and find what research there is to support/refute these claims. Noah O'Brien (discuss • contribs) 08:40, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Comments

Hi, the topic is really interesting, just be careful that using APA 7th formatting as your reference. I also give some suggestion in your chapter, feel free to check it out. Here are some reference that might be useful for your topic.

Sanders, C. R. (2003). Actions Speak Louder than Words: Close Relationships between Humans and Nonhuman Animals. Symbolic Interaction, 26(3), 405–426. https://doi.org/10.1525/si.2003.26.3.405

Myers, O. E., Saunders, C. D., & Birjulin, A. A. (2004). Emotional Dimensions of Watching Zoo Animals: An Experience Sampling Study Building on Insights from Psychology. Curator: The Museum Journal, 47(3), 299–321. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2151-6952.2004.tb00127.x

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Jingru shao 0906 (discuss • contribs) 17:25, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Possible Suggestion

Really good stuff! You may of already considered this but a possible future consideration and addition is Crows and other members of the Corvid family. Some examples for this are how some such as the Clark's Nutcracker is able to store large amounts of food and use spatial memory to recall where it stored them. Another example is how adaptive crows can be and how they've learnt to use human made objects as tools eg using lit ciggerates to get rid of parasites in their wings.

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/484453a BenjiD'Ange (discuss • contribs) 08:45, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

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-- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:03, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

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-- Jtneill - Talk - c 03:46, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Comments

A really interesting chapter to consider whilst I am currently looking into dopamine and learning. Within this topic there is a long history of animal testing to establish the relationship between the two.

Your insight into the emotional capacities of dogs was of particular interest as in my own research I looked into the experiment conducted in 1967 in which Seligman and Maier conditioned dogs to learn helplessness. This was achieve by administering a continuous mild shock that despite any of their actions would not stop. The next day these same dogs were put into a similar environment but with the key difference they could escape it they tried to leave the box they were in. Sadly two-thirds of these dogs failed to escape and accepted that there was nothing to do about the current they were being fed.

To consider what emotion was felt by these animals and what last effects it would have had is deeply concerning.

Below is a link to the study if there was any further curiosity.

[2]https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2016-30868-001.pdf Rhys Harmer (discuss • contribs) 13:19, 15 August 2024 (UTC)