Abstract:
:Today, we see a growing concern for the quality of life of nonhuman animals and an accompanying call for viable means of assessing how well animals thrive. Past research focused on minimizing negatives such as stress, while more recent endeavors strive to promote positives such as happiness. But what is animal happiness? Although often mentioned, the term lacks a clear definition. With recent advances in the study of animal emotion, current interest into positive rather than negative experiences, and the call for captive and domesticated animals to have good lives, the time is ripe to examine the concept of animal happiness. We draw from the human and animal literature to delineate a concept of animal happiness and propose how to assess it. We argue that animal happiness depends on how an individual feels generally-that is, a typical level of affect.
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Ann N Y Acad Scijournal_title
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciencesauthors
Webb LE,Veenhoven R,Harfeld JL,Jensen MBdoi
10.1111/nyas.13983subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-02-01 00:00:00pages
62-76issue
1eissn
0077-8923issn
1749-6632journal_volume
1438pub_type
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