Bioecological representations and social characteristics of students influence their attitudes toward wild vertebrates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The origin of different human emotions directed towards animals (whether in the utilitarian, affective, conflictual, or cosmological context) is strongly influenced by sociocultural factors, although our genetic predispositions also play an important role in the origin of these emotions. Such emotions guide people's representations of different species, which in turn affect their attitudes toward them. For this reason, understanding the factors that guide such attitudes becomes a key element in making conservationist decisions. In this sense, the main objective of this study was to analyze how sociocultural characteristics and bioecological representations can influence students' attitudes of empathy or antipathy towards vertebrate species; as well as which classes and s

SUBMITTER: da Silva AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10258757 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature