Fellow Creatures: Gender Roles, Dominance Training, and Caring for Pets

I have a new post over on my Psych Today blog Fellow Creatures.

A ginger cat looks at the camera
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By Zazie Todd PhD

Even though it’s 2022, gender roles still shape stereotypes and behaviour. A recent paper by Dr. Dennis Turner set me thinking about how they influence people’s relationships with their pets. Turner has contributed immensely to our understanding of our feline friends and based on an overview of feline science he writes about unanswered research questions about cats.

Read more here: Gender roles, dominance training, and caring for pets.  



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