ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020
The Importance of Human Emotions for Wildlife Conservation.
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
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- From words to worries: A cross-cultural comparison of parent-child conversations about snakes in early childhood.PloS one · 2026Article
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- Fears Related to Blood-Injection-Injury Inhibit Bystanders from Giving First Aid.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- The effect of fear and compassion on human willingness to protect predators and prey.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Knowledge, Perception, and Practices of Wildlife Conservation and Biodiversity Management in Bangladesh.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Claiming ecological grief: Why are we not mourning (more and more publicly) for ecological destruction?Ambio · 2024Article
- Effects of relational and instrumental messaging on human perception of rattlesnakes.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Can Gender Nouns Influence the Stereotypes of Animals?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Bioecological representations and social characteristics of students influence their attitudes toward wild vertebrates.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2023Article
- Enhancing Attention and Interest in Plants to Mitigate Plant Awareness Disparity.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- WASP: the World Archives of Species Perception.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2023Article
- The influence of superstitions and emotions on villagers' attitudes towards striped hyena in southwestern Iran.PloS one · 2023Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Animals have always been important for human life due to the ecological, cultural, and economic functions that they represent. This has allowed building several kinds of relationships that have promoted different emotions in human societies. The objective of this review was to identify the main emotions that humans show toward wildlife species and the impact of such emotions on animal population management. We reviewed academic databases to identify previous studies on this topic worldwide. An analysis of the emotions on wildlife and factors causing them is described in this study. We identified a controversy about these emotions. Large predators such as wolves, coyotes, bears, big felids, and reptiles, such as snakes and geckos, promote mainly anger, fear, and disgust. This is likely due to the perceptions, beliefs, and experiences that societies have historically built around them. However, in some social groups these animals have promoted emotions such as happiness due to their values for people. Likewise, sadness is an emotion expressed for the threatening situations that animals are currently facing. Furthermore, we associated the conservation status of wildlife species identified in the study with human emotions to discuss their relevance for emerging conservation strategies, particularly focused on endangered species promoting ambiguous emotions in different social groups.
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