{"id":749620,"date":"2017-12-15T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=749620"},"modified":"2017-12-15T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:16:21","slug":"study-humans-love-dogs-more-than-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=749620","title":{"rendered":"Study: Humans love dogs more than other people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DAVID K. LI:<\/strong> <em>\u2018Humans love dogs more than their fellow man. Two major studies showed that mankind has more empathy for pooches in dire circumstances than suffering people, according to a report in the Times of London. A UK medical research charity staged two phony donation campaigns \u2014 one for a dog and the other featuring a man. Of course, the pooch drew more contributions\u2026 Then a Northeastern University study showed that only a baby human could compete with man\u2019s best friend. Students were shown fake newspaper clippings about a baseball-bat attack on a puppy, an adult dog, a year-old infant and a 30-year-old adult. They were asked questions to gauge their empathy and the adult finished last in sympathy. \u201cRespondents were significantly less distressed when adult humans were victimized, in comparison with human babies, puppies and adult dogs,\u201d according to Northeastern researchers\u2019.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/10\/31\/humans-love-dogs-more-than-other-people-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">SOURCE\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMdiXLqD9WY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID K. LI: \u2018Humans love dogs more than their fellow man. Two major studies showed that mankind has more empathy for pooches in dire circumstances than suffering people, according to a report in the Times of London. A UK medical research charity staged two phony donation campaigns \u2014 one for a dog and the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[26,37],"class_list":["post-749620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-compassion","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749622,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749620\/revisions\/749622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/749621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}