The Inevitable bond: examining scientist-animal interactions

Abstract

1. Acknowledgements 2. The inevitable bond 3. Interactions, relationships and bonds: the conceptual basis for scientist-animal relations 4. Studies of rodent-human interactions in animal psychology 5. The covalent animal: on bonds and their boundaries in behavioral research 6. The phenomenon of attachment in human-nonhuman relationships 7. Humanity's 'best friend': the origins of our inevitable bond with dogs 8. The use of dog-human interaction as a reward in instrumental conditioning and its impact on dogs' cardiac regulation 9. Behavioral arousal and its effect on the experimental animal and the experimenter 10. Practice makes predictable: repeated sampling differentially affects behavioral and physiological responses 11. Improved handling of experimental rhesus monkeys 12. Social interaction as a condition for learning in avian species: a synthesis of the disciplines of ethology and psychology 13. Pongid pedagogy: the contribution of human-chimpanzee interactions to the study of ape cognition 14. The role of social bonds in motivating chimpanzee cognition 15. Minimizing an inevitable bond: the study of automated avoidance in rats 16. Underestimating the octopus 17. The scientist and the snake: relationships with reptiles 18. Fear of humans and its consequences for the domestic pig 19. The effect of the researcher on the behavior of poultry 20. Early human-animal relationships and temperament differences among domestic dairy goats 21. The effect of the researcher on the behavior of horses 22. Imprinting and other aspects of pinniped-human interactions 23. Humans as predators: observational studies and the risk of pseudo-habituation 24. Human-bear bonding in research on black bear behavior 25. Scientist-animal bonding: some philosophical reflections.