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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Children and animals"”.
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Public Perceptions of Animal Thinking
… replication of a survey by Rasmussen, Rajecki, and Craft (1993), 241 undergraduate psychology students and 148 members of the public were asked to indicate how reasonable it was that a child, dog, cat, bird, or fish had the capacity for each of 12 different cognitive abilities. Consistent with …
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Time perception in infants : an exploration using eye tracking methodology
… thesis draws on theoretical frameworks of understanding how animals and humans perceive short time intervals, it extends the framework, enabling the application of one developmental model of timing to be used with much younger children (four-months-old infants, formerly children aged three years …
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Childhood animal cruelty methods and their link to adult interpersonal violence
… between childhood acts of animal cruelty and later violence against humans. However, few studies have focused on the influence of animal cruelty methods on later interpersonal violence. In a replication of a study by Hensley and Tallichet (2009) and based on a sample of 180 inmates at …
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Transgenerational Effects of Synthetic Glucocorticoids on Offspring Behaviour and HPA Development in Guinea Pigs
… [sGC]) alters the trajectory of development and increases the risk for chronic diseases later in life. Approximately 10% of pregnant women are at risk for delivering prematurely and receive treatment with sGC to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality. Studies in children and animals …
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Epidemiology and molecular characterization of human and canine hookworm
… hookworms are a worldwide problem in both humans and animals. They cause non-specific gastrointestinal symptoms, and in young children and animals, they can cause stunting, malnutrition and anemia. Canine hookworms have significant zoonotic potential as a cause of cutaneous larvae migrans and …
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Childhood animal cruelty motives and their relationship to recurrent adult interpersonal crimes
… the link between childhood animal cruelty and adult interpersonal violence dates back to the early 1960s, few scholars have examined the predictive ability of childhood animal cruelty motives and their relationship to later violence toward humans. Based on a sample of 257 male inmates, the …
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The link between recurrent childhood animal cruelty and recurrent interpersonal violence
… potential link between childhood animal cruelty and future interpersonal violence. Findings since then have been inconsistent in establishing a relationship between the two. This may be due to researchers failing to measure the recurrency of childhood animal abuse and the recurrency of later …
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Can childhood animal cruelty be learned?: examining age of onset and recurrency
… study seeks to replicate the Hensley, Tallichet and Dutkiewicz (2012) study. It examines the potential for the onset and recurrence of childhood animal cruelty to become a learned behavior, specifically in terms of how demographic characteristics and childhood experiences, such as witnessing …
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Examining the effects of demographic and situational factors on childhood animal cruelty methods
… study seeks to replicate Hensley, Tallichet, and Dutkiewicz’s (2012) research on childhood animal cruelty methods by surveying 257 inmates in a medium-security Southern prison. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between participants’ demographic and situational factors …