Attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research: Effects of stigma and selected research project summaries.

ABSTRACT: Three groups of participants (largely recruited from the UK) completed a survey to examine attitudes to the use of animals in biomedical research, after reading the lay (N = 182) or technical (N = 201) summary of a research project, or no summary (N = 215). They then completed a survey comprising the animal attitude (AAS), animal purpose (APQ), belief in animal mind (BAM) and empathy quotient (EQ) scales. The APQ was adapted to assess attitudes towards the use of animals for research into disorders selected to be perceived as controllable and so 'blameworthy' and potentially stigmatised (addiction and obesity) and 'psychological' (schizophrenia and addiction) versus 'physical' (cardiovascular disease and obesity), across selected species (rats, mice, fish pigs and monkeys). Thus, the APQ w

SUBMITTER: Cassaday HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10437917 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature