Emotion in animals

way and show up their true feelings and emotions if they are aware that they are not part of a research. Thirdly, in a lot of instances, naturalistic observation can be used to revalidate results from previous experiments. When executed effectively, they can either confirm or refute existing hypothesis. While the research techniques have its merit, they do suffer several limitations.…

Imagine not being able to let out a cry when you need to, or not being able to appreciate the warmth of the sun. Humans have complex brains and they can express emotions and morality in a way that different species can’t even grasp. What makes up a human is much more than what they look like, it is their brains, emotions, and moral characters. Logically, what makes up a person is their brain and mental abilities. Some may believe that alternative organisms also have a brain, so what makes up…

“Each year, more than 100 million animals—including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are killed in U.S. laboratories,” (“Experiments”). Animal experimentation is extremely wrong and be put to an end. Countless innocent animals get put through numerous tests as if they do not have feelings or emotions. Animal testing has been going on far too long, and is not helping in the way it should. Most animal experimentation is still continuing for…

The Secret Thoughts of Martin Jenae Graves We are seeing a continual trend of creators giving personal, funny life stories to animals. The HBO show 'Animals' and Watchable's 'Dogs in a Park' are both inventive and highly entertaining. Downward Dog fits in with them well while standing on its own. Downward Dog circles a dog (Sadie) named Martin, voiced by Samm Hodges, who through what seems to be personal video diary is telling us about his life. Martin is deeply philosophical and at times a…

experience many emotions, such as fear, anger, joy, sadness, etc., throughout the day, have you ever wondered why we feel these emotions? Were we just born with the instinctual ability to feel these emotions, or did we learn to feel certain emotions towards certain things or situations? Amongst the many psychologists that set out to find the cause for emotions, a psychologist named John B. Watson immediately stands out. Not only was he able to discover the mystery behind emotions, but, in doing…

Life of Pi, Piscine Patel, known as Pi, encounters a traumatic experience, and an incredible journey of survival. To bear the difficult conditions he endured, Pi relied on his emotional state to keep him sane through a healthy balance of different emotions, and the importance of his animalistic side. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Pi’s emotional state is his core element of survival because it controls his sanity and, furthermore, pushes him to fulfill his physical and spiritual needs. Throughout…

about The Fish and The Moose, both of which have heavy use of animals in the poems. Joelle Biele gives a detailed report about many uses of vivid colors in Bishop’s papers, calling her a painter instead of a writer. Biele does so because Bishop uses very imaginative colors to describe her scenes, and it is common in multiple pieces she has written. William Logan’s article is a bit more broad as it does not only touch on her use of animals or colors, but has some useless information about Bishop…

The lack of empathy for others dehumanizes human beings as a whole and demotes and likens the entire human race to animals. In fact, Epicurus even asserts that “as soon as every animal is born, it seeks after pleasure and rejoices in it as the greatest good, while it rejects pain as the greatest bad” (CP pg1, LHS, p1). There fails to be a clear distinction between human beings and animals in this view as the only superiority humans seem to have is not automatically submitting to each and every…

are like animals but we have some differences. He questions inequality of man then asked about men being deformed by society. The more knowledge we have the more we leave the primitive state. The basic difference between animals and humans is free will. Free will is the decision whether or not to listen to our insistent or impulses. If humans did not have free will then we wouldn’t be able to have the advancements that we have today. There are other things that separate us from animals that…

Emotion Release Sessions using The Emotion Code The Emotion Code is a simple yet powerful technique to release unresolved emotions We all have unpleasent experiences we learn to deal with as we grow older. However, sometimes, due to their intensity or length of exposure, emotions can get trapped in the body in the form of energetic disturbances. These imbalances can not only cause emotional stress, but also physical distortions, leading to disease. It's not uncommon for people to keep…