Human Minds and Animal Stories
The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to investigate that power and explain the psychological and cultural mechanisms be...
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| author | Małecki, Wojciech Sorokowski, Piotr Pawłowski, Bogusław Cieński, Marcin |
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| description | The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to investigate that power and explain the psychological and cultural mechanisms behind it. It does so by presenting the results of an experimental project that involved thousands of participants, texts representing various genres and national literatures, and the cooperation of an internationally-acclaimed bestselling author. Combining psychological research with insights from animal studies, ecocriticism and other fields in the environmental humanities, the book not only provides evidence that animal stories can make us care for other species, but also shows that their effects are more complex and fascinating than we have ever thought. In this way, the book makes a groundbreaking contribution to the study of relations between literature and the nonhuman world as well as to the study of how literature changes our minds and society. "As witnessed by novels like Black Beauty and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a good story can move public opinion on contentious social issues. In Human Minds and Animal Stories a team of specialists in psychology, biology, and literature tells how they discovered the power of narratives to shift our views about the treatment of other species. Beautifully written and based on dozens of experiments with thousands of subjects, this book will appeal to animal advocates, researchers, and general readers looking for a compelling real-life detective story." - Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat : Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1599562025-07-29T20:32:54Z Human Minds and Animal Stories Małecki, Wojciech Sorokowski, Piotr Pawłowski, Bogusław Cieński, Marcin Young Man Prepulse Inhibition Artificial Experimental Conditions Weak Main Effect Smart Phones National Academy Ethical Journalism Network PETA’s Campaign Human Suffering EU Grant Black Beauty Vice Versa Broad Street Water Pump Color Blind Casting Italian High School Students Narrative Persuasion Main Characters Fifty Shades Animal Plight Animal Advocates Animal Studies Lambeth Company Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to investigate that power and explain the psychological and cultural mechanisms behind it. It does so by presenting the results of an experimental project that involved thousands of participants, texts representing various genres and national literatures, and the cooperation of an internationally-acclaimed bestselling author. Combining psychological research with insights from animal studies, ecocriticism and other fields in the environmental humanities, the book not only provides evidence that animal stories can make us care for other species, but also shows that their effects are more complex and fascinating than we have ever thought. In this way, the book makes a groundbreaking contribution to the study of relations between literature and the nonhuman world as well as to the study of how literature changes our minds and society. "As witnessed by novels like Black Beauty and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a good story can move public opinion on contentious social issues. In Human Minds and Animal Stories a team of specialists in psychology, biology, and literature tells how they discovered the power of narratives to shift our views about the treatment of other species. Beautifully written and based on dozens of experiments with thousands of subjects, this book will appeal to animal advocates, researchers, and general readers looking for a compelling real-life detective story." - Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat : Why It’s So Hard To Think Straight About Animals 2025-05-20T06:36:05Z 2025-05-20T06:36:05Z 2025-05-19T07:34:22Z 2019 book ONIX_20250519T091213_9780429591990_88 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102171 9780429591990 9780429588112 9780429061424 9780367146047 9780367661960 9780429590054 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159956 eng Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102171/1/9780429591990.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102171/1/9780429591990.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429061424 10.4324/9780429061424 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780429591990 9780429588112 9780429061424 9780367146047 9780367661960 9780429590054 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2022: HSS Backlist Books Routledge 200 Oxford [...] open access |
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