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The Psychology of Animal Emotion and Personality
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The Psychology of Animal Emotion and Personality

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Human-Animal Interactions, Animal Behaviour and Emotion".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2021) | Viewed by 2850

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Paul Morris

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Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, King Henry Building, King Henry 1st Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 2DY, UK
Interests: secondary emotions in animals and infants; animal personality; inter species communication; the embodiment of emotions and intentions

Special Issue Information

There continues to be an intense debate surrounding the extent to which non-human animals (henceforth animals) are psychological. There is a general reluctance in the scientific community to use the term psychology with reference to animals. There is no journal of animal psychology and the relevant existing journals use terms such as behavior, cognition, and learning in their titles. Emotion and personality are key psychological terms for both scientists and the everyday public. Despite scientific reluctance to use the term “animal psychology”, there has been an increasing volume of scientific work focused on personality and emotion in animals. A review of knowledge in this area is timely given the burgeoning scientific interest, the importance of emotion and personality for issues surrounding animal rights, and more fundamentally, what we think animals are.

Dr. Paul Morris
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Animal emotion
  • animal personality
  • animal affect
  • animal individual differences

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Exploratory Behaviours of Primitive Horses Based on Konik: A Preliminary Study
by Ewa Jastrzębska, Joanna Sadowska, Elżbieta Wnuk-Pawlak, Monika Różańska-Boczula and Iwona Janczarek
Animals 2021, 11(3), 796; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11030796 - 12 Mar 2021
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Abstract
This study aimed at assessing the behaviour of Konik geldings and mares, kept in a stable and in a free-range system, during behavioural tests regarded as a determinant of the exploration urge. A total of 19 Konik horses kept in individual stables and [...] Read more.
This study aimed at assessing the behaviour of Konik geldings and mares, kept in a stable and in a free-range system, during behavioural tests regarded as a determinant of the exploration urge. A total of 19 Konik horses kept in individual stables and in a free-range system were included in the study. The experiment was conducted in five phases separated by five-day breaks. A one-stage passive human test was performed during the first phase, a three-stage active human test—2nd phase, a three-stage unknown object test—3rd phase, a two-stage unknown surface test—4th phase, and a one-stage test of social isolation—5th phase. Ten attributes were analysed, including the horse sex and the keeping system. The results were also correlated with one another. Konik horses were found to show the urge to explore, although their behavioural responses are individual and stimulus dependent. In many cases, the horse sex and the keeping system influence the exploratory behaviour, although it is manifested by a greater intensity in geldings than in mares, and in free-range horses than in those kept in a stable. The study is regarded as preliminary due to the small number of horses in the study groups. Full article
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