Humans show more empathy for dogs than people - study

Humans can have more empathy for dogs than their two-legged friends, a new study suggests.

The research, involving 256 undergraduates, examined whether people were more emotionally disturbed by reports of humans or dogs suffering abuse.

Participants in the study were given fictitious news reports about an unprovoked attack “with a baseball bat by an unknown assailant”.

“Arriving on the scene a few minutes after the attack, a police officer found that the victim had a broken leg, multiple lacerations and unconscious,” it said.

Different versions of the report had the victim of the attack as either a one-year-old infant, a 30-year-old man, a puppy or an adult dog.

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The students were then asked questions to indicate their degree of empathy for each of the victims.

“Respondents were significantly less distressed when adult humans were victimised, in comparison with human babies, puppies and adult dogs,” the researchers said.

“Only relative to the infant victim did the adult dog receive lower scores of empathy.”

They added: “Subjects did not view their dogs as animals, but rather as ‘fur babies’, or family members alongside human children.”

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No shit. Dogs are innocent. All people have sinned.

Words of wisdom.

This is something I've noticed myself. In 'China hate' threads when people post gifs of chinks slaughtering and torturing dogs and cats I'm like "FUCK THAT NOT WATCHING" but when it's gifs of niggers in Africa lighting each other on fire I just lol.

Yes because our country is full of a bunch of Disney trained faggots

Some dogs are more people than some people

What about those that have no empathy at all and want to be surrounded by death.

I need sauce on that pic, i really hope irs the begging of a porno.

I agree with this.
When an "adult human" is involved, it could be the result of some private disagreements with the assailant, he might have pissed someone off or something. Basically, he is an adult and he has personal responsibility of his actions and consequences
Attacks on dogs and infants are seen as malice or sadism

Obviously, most people have had bad connections with other people or have been treated badly by other people. It makes sense.

No dog never stole my car.

only disney trained faggots feel empathy for humans

>Having empathy for any animal that isnt your own dog/cat etc
Fucking cucks

FPBP

No nigger stole your car either.

I would pick any animal before anyone one these fucking retards that has ruined my country. Any day. Any time.

How could this be?!

Good. This bumps my assessment of humans a little bit. Doggos are based af.
MAN'S BEST FRIEND.

Check'd. Dogs don't really have a sense of fucking over other humans unlike other humans.

here's a thought experiment, you have to press a button

>kill 99% of dogs on earth, at random
>kill 99% of black people (+50% african DNA) on earth, at random

you're a sociopatic and should seek medical help asap

Fpbp

Dogs have no malice, humans do.

We're made for wars, hunts and tribes, it's normal we root for our own over the rest no matter who these are

>people
>implying brown people
only white people like dogs

Dogs are helpless and didn't do anything wrong.

People can be annoying.

I could care less about either of those getting attacked. Unless I know they're white.

a dog isn't trying to fuck me over. it was literally bred to serve man. that's an evolutionary contract you can't ignore.

*calvinism intensifies*

Probably because dogs are incapable of speech and lack freedom and the means to defend themselves in most situations. People have the ability to reason with each other or their situations, make intelligent decisions to avoid danger/harm, and are generally more protected by laws from other people fucking with them.

A million antifas are not worth one dead doggo

Only the unborn are innocent, my buddy.

Further proof muslims aren't human

fucking saved

Low IQ sociopaths are becoming an issue. There has seem to be more and more lately. As if souls are gone and just empty husk of flesh walking around. I hate all those who don't protect their own species over a fucking inferior animal.

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Dogs are literally better than humans so I fail to see how this is in any way shocking.

just looks like two underage eastern euro sluts

Didn't even think twice

Just look at it in terms of efficiency+balance.
>total amount of deaths of dogs vs niggers
>pros and cons of dogs and niggers
>statistics of environmental impact of dogs vs niggers
>which has a more positive effect on the outcome of nature/humans in the short/long term: dogs or niggers

God has predetermined if we will live to be sinners or not. It matters not what we do, Hell or Heaven is all predetermined.

Or God does not exist, which seems more likely

>Humans are projecting their parental instincts onto non-human offspring because their society has decayed to such a point. That directing those instincts towards actual human offspring is no longer possible, idle, or acceptable
It's a sign of the times user, practically all the irregular behavior we see right now is a symptom of a rotting society.

Because the world sucks and animals are out of this wicked game that's society. Or at least that's the image we have of them.

That's why humans are also so protective of children, because they haven't entered the game yet. It's what we call "innocence".

You're taught the rules and you try to live by them the best you can and as you grow up you realize they lied to you, that the more you break the rules the more you enjoy the game and poor you, trying to thrive and do well, are punished out of proportion for any slight slip because breaking the rules a little bit is worse than break free of them.

Isn't that a double negative?

Now I have technical issues about how would a dog steal a car.

I have to agree with why humans show more empathy for animals than people. Honestly, animals are innocent. They are void of wrong doings, while humans on the other side are corrupt. They sin, they're for the vast majority pieces of shit.

because dogs can't ask for a job, duh

Russia looks like a nice place

Great, now do the same thing but with a man as the victim and a woman as the victim.

kek

Exactly. The first question that pops into my head when a person gets his shit pushed in is "what the fuck happened to get to that point". If a puppy gets kicked, there's really no questions to ask. The conclusion is that the nigger (let's be serious, it's always a nigger) who did it is a steaming pile of shit and deserves to be burned alive.

Dogs have sinned as well, I've been sexually assaulted by dogs with unwanted leg humping.

I hear you but I meant babies flash their wee-wees first thing out of the womb so they sin immediately.

>Thanks to recent developments in brain imaging technology, we’re starting to get a better picture of what’s going on inside the canine cranium. As a result, we’re coming to a better understanding of not only how their brains work, but also how they feel about (and respond to) us.

>Scientists who are studying the brains of our canine companions assert that dogs do seem to love us back, and more than that, they actually see us as their family. Indeed, it turns out that dogs rely on humans more than they do their own kind for affection, protection, and comfort.

>Ultimately, scientists found that dog owners’ scent activated the “reward center” of the dogs’ brains, called the “caudate nucleus.” In fact, as it turns out, of all the smells that dogs take in, they prioritized the smell of humans over anything or anyone else.

futurism.com/scientists-use-brain-scans-reveal-dogs-really-think-us/

(White) people like dogs because dogs like us back, it's that simple.

Ever notice that the "people" who abuse dogs always end up being psychopaths, muslims, chinaroaches and other demographics devoid of empathy and compassion?

You're a fag dogs don't have souls. Read your Bible.

this.

>ITT people who have little to no experience with actual animals
Animals are not innocent, they are not without aggression. They can display many of the things you consider 'wrong'. You only elevate them to such a degree because you lack a healthy outlet to vent them towards, such as your own child.

no shit, people are competitors

Sounds about right.

A dog will be loyal to you even if you treat it like shit, meanwhile a human will treat you like shit even if you're loyal to them.

Well a dog is more valuable then any "person" who is not white. Mans best friend after all, or to put it correctly white mans best friend. Shitskins hate dogs

Perhaps the will of God is predetermined and so is cycle of sin.

Yes, non-human animals we take on tend to literally see us as their parents. Cats see their owners as larger cats, i.e their parents for example.

They are innocent because they don't have the capacity of humans to make the rational choices that we do. Is it malevolence that causes a puppy to chew on a sofa? No, he does it because his instincts demand he do so.

I don't think that's true.

Maybe on the internet or via pictures.

you're a sociopath

>Dogs are innocent because they can't be rational
How is it you came to define 'innocence' as rationality?

Well, duh. They needed a study for that?

>hold up *kills bird* so you be saying *rapes friend* we wuz *destorys sofa* innocent *mauls child* and sheit?

They take decisions, they are just good decisions.

No shit
normies always get butthurt when someone posts a dog in a gore or rekt thread

Isn't this obvious?

>They are innocent because they don't have the capacity of humans to make the rational choices that we do
Does that apply to niggers as well?

Thank you Brit-user, many people's view of animals is pretty delusional these days. They're to far removed from natural world, and their own instincts.

By this user's rational yes, he would consider Negros as 'innocent'. Because Negros are not human, and pure breeds objectively lack rationality.

I will bet you $50 that the majority of those 256 undergraduates are white.

The title should read
>White European show more empathy for dogs than people

Would be more accurate

This user gets it.

Of course i have more empathy with an completely instinct driven animal than i have with rampant Leftists, Muslim invaders and Dindunuffins - because the latter ones are dangerous and exhibit behavior unfit for human beings DESPITE having a (somewhat) functioning brain which they could actually use if they tried to. The fact that they deliberately chose self-indoctrination and instinctual behavior over rationality despite that reduces my empathy for them to near-nonexistence.

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wish i had time to whip it out and spunk on the left girls face, but gotta pick up the kids!

He wuz a good boy who dindu nuffin.

pets have pretty much been evolved to draw more of our attention by us to better their chances at survival, they're godamned parasites that we mistakingly made, any degenerate who empathizes more with animals should be put down like a sick dog.

Makes sense to me. The adult human maybe deserved it. Adult humans can also take care of themselves and will probably be OK apart from whatever bruises and lacerations. They can also mentally process what happened to them and analyze their emotions. They may decide to forgive their attacker or seek revenge, both provide comfort that the child or dog cannot have.

Ethernal anglo is a faggot
wew, what a surprise!
>"The hunter has grace, beauty, and purity of heart to be found nowhere else. You can make no distinction between what they are and what they do. And what they do is kill. We, of course, are another matter. It is our faintness of heart that has driven us to the edge of ruin. Perhaps you won't agree, but nothing is crueler than a coward. And the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining." (cit.)

I don't think this is true of Muslims or Chinese

Acting without having the ability to understand the potential consequences of said actions grants one a certain innocence, yes. A senile old man heiling Hitler during his mad ramblings isn't generally held to the same standard as a man with clear mind in full understanding of the consequences of his actions might be.

A dog does not know that peeing on the carpet is inherently any worse than peeing on the grass outside. He will just eventually learn that it seems to upset the person who gives him food, so he will try not to do so. The morality of the act itself remains unclear to him.

Humanity is garbage. Even normies recognize this.

>Roommates bring some FPS war game over
>running around shooting people
>dogs start attack us and make whimpering noises when you hurt them
>make quip that I feel worse for shooting the dogs
>everyone starts talking about family pets
I guess I'm not a psychopath after all, some good in me somewhere it seems

Dogs don't do evil,unlike scumbag humans

>undergrads
>cityfags
>people
user, I...

>Animal's lack the ability to think beyond immediate action-reaction basis
Except this is demonstrably false. Plenty of types of animals have been observed with similar multi-step processing thinking and planning which we associate with human cognition. This is precisely what I was talking about earlier, you're infanticing animals to justify your fixation with them in order to vent your parental instincts onto something which is not your offspring.

>A dog doesn't know that peeing on the carpet is wrong until you train it
Does the human child know you shouldn't pee on the carpet until you guide it? What you're speaking of is ignorance, not innocence.

No problem Ameribro. It always astounds me how a group of people that strive to put logic and traditional values above everything else are incapable of seeing dogs as useful but ultimately degenerate and selfish species (as their ancestors would have), and instead view them as "muh ebin innocent BASED doggos".
Not that I have any issue with dogs, but people on this board who claim dogs are innocent or worth more than humans are just as deluded and illogical as the leftists they claim to oppose.

lmaui

Provide a definition for what you believe constitutes 'evil' and then look for that in animal world. You will see it everywhere, and in greater numbers.

omg I always thought I'm not normal for feeling that way.
It's not I don't care for humans but somehow stories about tortured animals, especially dogs strike me more than stories about humans.
animals and human babies

>more empathy for dogs than humans
This is why the west is immoral and must be replaced with a more humane civilization like Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Bahrain or the Emirates. Low violent crime and a virtually non existant suicide rate. Hell even syria is safer than burgerland. Im not even a muslim and i welcome the demographic shift.

nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Violent-crime/Murder-rate

Of course. Puppers are pure. They may be aggressive sometimes but they're never evil. Humans though. Humans can be evil. Humans will spend considerable effort on figuring out ways to fuck you over in the most painful ways possible for fun and financial gain, but also just for fun alone.

Jesus told us to love sinners though

Sadly This

Absolutely

Spot on

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust that is total. You must not betray it

Nah, it's just white culture shit.

Humans do not deserve or need empathy.

They need and deserve opportunity.

I don't give a shit what you feel for people, only what you do or enable them to do for themselves.