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Prevailing Clusters Of Canine Behavioural Traits In Historical Us Demand For Dog Breeds (1926–2005), Bethany Wilson, James Serpell, Harold Herzog, Paul Mcgreevy

Harold Herzog, PhD

Drawing on American Kennel Club (AKC) puppy registration numbers for approximately 82 varieties of pedigree dogs between 1926 and 2005, the current article analyses behavioural reports on 32,005 dogs of these varieties reported through the Canine Behavioural Assessment and Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ). Cluster analysis of C-BARQ scores indicates that the 82 breeds fell into six clusters. Average scores for each of the 14 behavioural subscales and 22 miscellaneous traits in C-BARQ were calculated for each cluster, and the breeds in each cluster with average scores most similar to the cluster averages were selected as titular breeds. Titular breeds for each …

How Social Contagion Helps Explain Our Pet Choices, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Therapy Dogs For Homesick College Students?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

What's The Deal With "Furries?", Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Why Kids With Pets Are Better Off, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Large Study Finds Pet Owners Are Different, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Can Pet Crickets Improve The Well-Being Of The Elderly?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Can Dogs Help Solve Our Childhood Obesity Problem?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Why Do Animal Shelter Workers Burn Out?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

How Much Solidarity Do You Feel With Animals?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

25 Things You Probably Didn’T Know About Dogs, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Why Do Dog Breeds With Genetic Disorders Suddenly Get Hot?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

"Study Finds Dog-Walkers Have More Bad Mental Health Days!", Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Do Vegetarians Smell Sexier?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Narcissism And Exotic Pets: Is There A Connection?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Think Twice Before Giving Medical Marijuana To Your Pet, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Are Pet Owners Really At Greater Risk Of Cancer?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Farm Animal Suffering Leaves A Bad Taste In Your Mouth, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Are The Results Of Animal Therapy Studies Unreliable?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

When Are Puppies At Their Cutest?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Emotional Support Animals: The Therapist's Dilemma, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Why Do Animal Tragedies Go Viral?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Moral Emotions And Social Activism: The Case Of Animal Rights, Harold A. Herzog, Lauren L. Golden

Harold Herzog, PhD

Why do some people and not others become involved in social movements? We examined the relationships between a moral emotion—disgust—and animal activism, attitudes toward animal welfare, and consumption of meat. Participants were recruited through two social networking websites and included animal activists, promoters of animal use, and participants not involved in animal-related causes. They took an online survey which included measures of sensitivity to visceral disgust, attitudes toward animal welfare, and frequency of meat eating. Animal activists were more sensitive to visceral disgust than were promoters of animal use or nonaligned participants. Disgust sensitivity was positively correlated with attitudes toward …

Dog Movie Stars And Dog Breed Popularity: A Case Study In Media Influence On Choice, Stefano Ghirlanda, Alberto Acerbi, Harold A. Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Fashions and fads are important phenomena that influence many individual choices. They are ubiquitous in human societies, and have recently been used as a source of data to test models of cultural dynamics. Although a few statistical regularities have been observed in fashion cycles, their empirical characterization is still incomplete. Here we consider the impact of mass media on popular culture, showing that the release of movies featuring dogs is often associated with an increase in the popularity of featured breeds, for up to 10 years after movie release. We also find that a movie’s impact on breed popularity correlates …

Forty-Two Thousand And One Dalmatians: Fads, Social Contagion, And Dog Breed Popularity, Harold A. Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Like other cultural variants, tastes in companion animals (pets) can shift rapidly. An analysis of American Kennel Club puppy registrations from 1946 through 2003 (N = 48,598,233 puppy registrations) identified rapid but transient large-scale increases in the popularity of specific dog breeds. Nine breeds of dogs showed particularly pronounced booms and busts in popularity. On average, the increase (boom) phase in these breeds lasted 14 years, during which time annual new registrations increased 3,200%. Equally steep decreases in registrations for the breeds immediately followed these jumps in popularity. The existence of extreme fluctuations in preferences for dog breeds has implications …

Attitudes And Dispositional Optimism Of Animal Rights Demonstrators, Shelley L. Galvin, Harold A. Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Mail-in surveys were distributed to animal activists attending the 1996 March for the Animals. Age and gender demographic characteristics of the 209 activists who participated in the study were similar to those of the 1990 March for the Animals demonstrators. Most goals of the animal rights movement were judged to be moderately to critically important, although beliefs about their chances of being realized varied considerably. Movement tactics judged to be least effective included the liberation of laboratory animals and the harassment of researchers. Education was seen as being a particularly important instrument of future social change. Demonstrators' scores on the …

Animal Rights Talk: Moral Debate Over The Internet, Harold A. Herzog Jr., Beth Dinoff, Jessica R. Page

Harold Herzog, PhD

Messages sent over Animal Rights-Talk, an electronic mail network devoted to the discussion of issues related to the animal rights movement, were analyzed. Messages typically fell into the following categories: questions and information, discussions of philosophical issues, ethical problems associated with the treatment of particular species, the politics of the animal rights movement, problems of moral consistency, the ethics of particular uses of non-human species (e.g., meat consumption, biomedical research with animal subjects), and matters pertaining to the internal life of the network (e.g., efforts at control of perceived norm violations). Debates between animal activists and animal researchers over the …

Does Breed Popularity Go Up After A Dog Wins At Westminster?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

Therapy Dogs Or Robots For Nursing Home Residents?, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD

8 Misconceptions About Therapy, Service, And Support Animals, Harold Herzog

Harold Herzog, PhD