Attitudes toward animals: The effect of priming thoughts of human-animal similarities and mortality salience on the evaluation of companion animals

Society and Animals

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 72-89

  Beatson, Ruth ^a   Loughnan, Stephen ^b   Halloran, Michael ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal attitudes; Mortality salience (ms) creatureliness; Pets; Terror management

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 68249138507     PISSN: 10631119     EISSN: 15685306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853009X393774     Document Type: Article

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