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  When Elephants Weep: Emotional Lives of Animals (Paperback) By (author) Jeffrey Masson, By (author) Susan McCarthy

  

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  Short Description for When Elephants WeepArguments that animals possess an emotional life are often dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. This book challenges that notion by proposing that the objective scientific evidence for human emotions is all but non-existent.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 11 January 1996
  • Format: Paperback 272 pages
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  • Categories: Society & Culture: General | Animals & Society | Psychology | Zoology & Animal Sciences | Animal Behaviour
  • ISBN 13: 9780099478911 ISBN 10: 0099478919
  • Sales rank: 82,771

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• Arguments that animals possess an emotional life are often dismissed as sentimental anthropomorphism. This book challenges that notion by proposing that the objective scientific evidence for human emotions is all but non-existent. Thus, if the whole of our human psychological understanding rests on reflective inferences, why are the same criteria considered invalid for animals?