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Empathy: Common sense, science sense, wolves, and well-being

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Marc Bekoff
Marc Bekoff
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0334 [email protected] www.ethologicalethics.org
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Abstract

Empathy is likely more widely distributed among animals than many researchers realize or perhaps are willing to admit. Studies of social carnivores, other group-living animals, and communication via different modalities will help us learn more about the evolutionary roots and behavioral, sensory, and cognitive underpinnings of empathy, including what it means to have a sense of self. There are also important implications for debates about animal well-being.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 26 - 27
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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