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ArticleAsian bioethics review2023

Optimism about Measuring Animal Feelings.

Heather Browning, Walter Veit

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Article in Asian bioethics review, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Heather BrowningUniversity of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Walter VeitUniversity of Bristol, Bristol, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7701-8995

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While animal sentience research has flourished in the last decade, scepticism about our ability to accurately measure animal feelings has unfortunately remained fairly common. Here, we argue that evolutionary considerations about the functions of feelings will give us more reason for optimism and outline a method for how this might be achieved.

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Animal ethicsAnimal painAnimal sentienceAnimal welfareConsciousness studies

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PMID37396677
PMCPMC10313588

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