Human-Animal Interaction Research: Progress and Possibilities

Frontiers in Psychology

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James A. Griffin¹  Karyl Hurley²  Sandra McCune³ 

[1] The National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States;Mars Incorporated, United States;The WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, United Kingdom

关键词: human-animal interaction;    animal-assisted interventions;    anthrozoology;    companion animals;    service animals;    child development;    autism spectrum disorder;    attention deficit hyperactivity disorder;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02803

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Ten years ago, while reviewing the extant research literature on Human-Animal Interaction(HAI), a single question came to mind: “Why don’t we know more about this topic?” (Griffinet al., 2011). A decade later the answer appears to have been, in part, a lack of infrastructureto organize and support stand-alone workshops and symposia at scientific conferences (andresulting edited volumes and journal articles) and concomitant sustained funding for rigorousresearch studies. As evidenced by this Frontiers Research Topic which includes 13 original datapapers, the 10-year Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NationalInstitute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the WALTHAMR Centre forPet Nutrition (WALTHAMR), a part of Mars Incorporated, has enabled the Human-AnimalInteraction (HAI) field to make remarkable progress in, by scientific standards, a very brieftimespan (McCune et al., 2020). In the final Opinion paper of this Frontiers Research Topic,Human-Animal Interaction Research: A Decade of Progress, we provide a commentary on howprogress in basic and translational HAI research can be sustained as well as explore how ongoingchallenges and untapped possibilities will impact the next decade of HAI research.

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