ArticleFrontiers in psychology2014
How accurate are we at assessing others' well-being? The example of welfare assessment in horses.
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- Farm Atmosphere: Calm Attention and Mobility Characterise Positive Horse Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Opportunities for agency in domestic horses: Applying the behavioural domain to increase equine welfare.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2026Review
- Assessing Equine Behavioural Responses in Equine-Assisted Services: A Field Study Analysis.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- From Human Perception of Good Practices to Horse (Equus Caballus) Welfare: Example of Equine-Assisted Activities.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- "How long is life worth living for the horse?" A focus group study on how Austrian equine stakeholders assess quality of life for chronically ill or old horses.BMC veterinary research · 2024Article
- An Exploratory Study into the Backgrounds and Perspectives of Equine-Assisted Service Practitioners.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- How well can you tell? Success of human categorisation of horse behavioural responses depicted in media.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Article
- Finnish and Swedish riding school pupils' motivation towards participation in non-riding education.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- Testing individual variations of horses' tactile reactivity: when, where, how?Die Naturwissenschaften · 2022Review
- Detecting Welfare in a Non-Verbal Species: Social/Cultural Biases and Difficulties in Horse Welfare Assessment.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
- Equine-Assisted Interventions (EAIs) for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): Behavioural and Physiological Indices of Stress in Domestic Horses (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Enhanced Understanding of Horse-Human Interactions to Optimize Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
- Caring for the Older Horse: A Conceptual Model of Owner Decision Making.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- On-Farm Welfare Assessment of Horses: The Risks of Putting the Cart before the Horse.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Review
- Indicators of Horse Welfare: State-of-the-Art.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Review
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- History, clinical findings and outcome of horses with radiographical signs of equine odontoclastic tooth resorption and hypercementosis.The Veterinary record · 2019Article
- Housing Horses in Individual Boxes Is a Challenge with Regard to Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Article
- A Study of Traveller Horse Owners' Attitudes to Horse Care and Welfare Using an Equine Body Condition Scoring System.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Article
- Could posture reflect welfare state? A study using geometric morphometrics in riding school horses.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
Healthcare practitioners such as physicians or nurses often underestimate patients' well-being impairment (e.g., pain, anxiety) which may lead to undesirable consequences on treatment decisions. Lack of recognition/identification of signals and over-exposure are two reasons invoked, but a combination of factors may be involved. Studying human decoding of animals' expressions of emotions showed that "identification" to the subject was necessary to decode the other's internal state. In the present study we wanted to compare caretakers' reports on the prevalence of stereotypic or abnormal repetitive behaviors, to ethological observations performed by an experienced observer on the same horses in order to test the impact of these different factors. On the first hand, a questionnaire was given hand to hand to the caretakers. On the other hand, the experienced observer spent 18 h observing the horses in each stable. Here we show that caretakers strongly underestimate horses' expressions of well-being impairment. The caretakers who had a strong concern about their horses' well-being were also those who reported the more accurately SB/ARB's prevalence, showing that "identification" to the subject is a primary factor of bad-being signal's detection. Over-exposure also appeared to be involved as no SB/ARB was reported in stables where most of the horses were performing these abnormal behaviors. Being surrounded by a large population of individuals expressing clear signals of bad-being may change professionals' perceptions of what are behaviors or expressions of well being. These findings are of primary importance as (1) they illustrate the interest of using human-animal relationships to evaluate humans' abilities to decode others' states; (2) they put limitations on questionnaire-based studies of welfare.
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