Whether and to what extent different animals experience emotions is an interesting and important scientific question. It is also a question that has proven extremely difficult to answer mostly due to the difficulty of defining emotions in the first place.
Comparative studies of psychological processes have mostly focused on cognitive capacities such as short and long-term memory, abstract learning and concept formation, but very little on emotional ones.
"Animal emotion: Descriptive and prescriptive definitions and their
implications for a comparative perspective" - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322878846_Animal_emotion_Descriptive_and_prescriptive_definitions_and_their_implications_for_a_comparative_perspective is an excellent article that tries to make a distinction between descriptive and prescriptive definitions of the word “emotion” for use in the context of non-human species.
Whether and to what extent different animals experience emotions is an interesting and important scientific question. It is also a question that has proven extremely difficult to answer mostly due to the difficulty of defining emotions in the first place.
Comparative studies of psychological processes have mostly focused on cognitive capacities such as short and long-term memory, abstract learning and concept formation, but very little on emotional ones.
"Animal emotion: Descriptive and prescriptive definitions and their
implications for a comparative perspective" - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322878846_Animal_emotion_Descriptive_and_prescriptive_definitions_and_their_implications_for_a_comparative_perspective is an excellent article that tries to make a distinction between descriptive and prescriptive definitions of the word “emotion” for use in the context of non-human species.
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