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  2. Emotion in animals - Wikipedia

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    In humans, a distinction is sometimes made between "basic" and "complex" emotions. Six emotions have been classified as basic: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise. [14] Complex emotions would include contempt, jealousy and sympathy. However, this distinction is difficult to maintain, and animals are often said to express even ...

  3. Evolution of emotion - Wikipedia

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    Primal emotions, such as love and fear, are associated with ancient parts of the psyche. Social emotions, such as guilt and pride, evolved among social primates. Evolutionary psychologists consider human emotions to be best adapted to the life our ancestors led in nomadic foraging bands.

  4. Mythic humanoids - Wikipedia

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    Mythic humanoids are legendary, folkloric, or mythological creatures that are part human, or that resemble humans through appearance or character. Each culture has different mythical creatures that come from many different origins, and many of these creatures are humanoids .

  5. Anthropomorphism - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. [1] It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology. [2] Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions, and natural forces, such as seasons and weather ...

  6. Sentience - Wikipedia

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    Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates." [ 2 ] b. ^ Quote: "Granted, these animals do not have all the desires we humans have; granted, they do not comprehend everything we humans comprehend; nevertheless, we and they do have some of the same ...

  7. The Surprising (& Not So Surprising) Reasons Your Dog is ...

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    These emotions may be different from the human variety, but a dog’s feelings, when dysregulated, can lead to mental health problems akin to depression. Dogs show a range of symptoms related to ...

  8. Animal consciousness - Wikipedia

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    According to the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, "near human-like levels of consciousness" have been observed in the grey parrot. [1]Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within an animal, or of being aware of an external object or something within itself.

  9. Emotion - Wikipedia

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    Basic Emotions: Prinz's theory is associated with the idea of basic emotions, which are a limited set of universal and biologically driven emotional states. He argues that attributions of basic emotions are part of human cognitive architecture and that these attributions are made automatically and rapidly.