William H.B. McAuliffe

Measuring wild animal welfare attitudes: The attitudes towards wild animal welfare scale

Willem W. A. Sleegers, David A. Moss, William H.B. McAuliffe, David Reinstein et autres

Wild animals suffer from many naturally occurring harms such as starvation, diseases, and conflicts with other animals, yet little research has been conducted on how people view the natural suffering of wild animals. In this paper we introduce the Attitudes towards Wild …

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Does Measurement Bias Explain Sex Differences in Self-Reported Empathy?

Thomas Granville McCauley, William H.B. McAuliffe

Self-reports of trait empathic concern suggest that females are more empathic than males, while self-reports of state empathy yield small, inconsistent sex differences. Researchers have inferred from this pattern that sex differences in empathic concern reflect measurement biases that are elicited by …

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Does empathy promote helping by activating altruistic motivation or concern about social evaluation? A direct replication of Fultz et al. (1986).

Thomas Granville McCauley, William H.B. McAuliffe, Michael E. McCullough

prosocial behavior? And if so, does it activate genuine concern or more self-interested motivations? To rule out the alternative hypothesis that empathy motivates prosocial behavior by generating fear of social disapproval for acting selfishly, Fultz et al. (1986) manipulated empathy for a …

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Structural Validity Evidence for the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale Across 15 Languages

Briana Oshiro, William H.B. McAuliffe, Raymond Luong, Anabela Caetano Santos et autres

Abstract: Background: The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) recently completed a large-scale moral psychology study using translated versions of the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale (OUS). However, the translated versions have no validity evidence. Objective: The study investigated the structural validity evidence of the OUS …

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Structural Validity Evidence for the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale Across 15 Languages

Briana Oshiro, William H.B. McAuliffe, Raymond Luong, Anabela Caetano Santos et autres

Background The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) recently completed a large-scale moral psychology study using translated versions of the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale (OUS). However, the translated versions have no validity evidence. Objective The study investigated the structural validity evidence of the OUS across …

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Measuring attitudes towards wild animal welfare: The Wild Animal Welfare Scale

Willem W. A. Sleegers, David Moss, William H.B. McAuliffe, David Reinstein et autres

In this paper we introduce the Wild Animal Welfare (WAW) scale. The WAW scale consists of four important factors to assess attitudes towards the welfare of wild animals: caring about WAW, support for intervening in nature, idyllic views of nature, and intervention …

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Paths to reducing rodenticide use in the U.S. Paper

Holly Elmore, William H.B. McAuliffe, H. Mckay

This is the third report in a sequence of reports on reducing the use of rodenticide poisons. It is not necessary to have read the previous reports to read this one, although this report will take for granted conclusions that were discussed …

Eradicating rodenticides from pest management is less practical than you think

Holly Elmore, William H.B. McAuliffe, H. Mckay

Rodenticide poisons are cruel and reducing their use would likely represent an improvement in wild animal welfare. This report explores the reasons why rodenticides are used, under what circumstances they could be replaced, and whether they are replaceable with currently available alternatives. …

Optimizing rabies vaccination of dogs in India

Kim Cuddington, William H.B. McAuliffe

Summary Dog vaccination is the key to controlling rabies in human populations. However, in countries like India, with large free-roaming dog populations, vaccination strategies that rely only on parenteral vaccines are unlikely to be either feasible or successful. Oral rabies vaccines could …

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Optimising rabies vaccination of dogs in India

Kim Cuddington, William H.B. McAuliffe

Dog vaccination is the key to controlling rabies in human populations. However, in countries like India, with large free-roaming dog populations, vaccination strategies that rely only on parenteral vaccines are unlikely to be either feasible or successful. Oral rabies vaccines could be …

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The Relative Importance of the Severity and Duration of Pain

William H.B. McAuliffe, Adam Shriver

- Pains vary in their severity and duration. When one pain is longer-lasting but less intense than a second pain, the most straightforward way to compare how much disutility they cause is to multiply how much longer by how much less severe …

Does the Trajectory of Pain Matter?

William H.B. McAuliffe, Adam Shriver

●Humans might prefer bad events giving way to good outcomes over good events giving way to bad outcomes, holding net welfare constant. ●If this preference reflects a valid moral intuition that applies to both humans and non-human animals, then painful events at …

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