So happy to have completed the course Animal Emotions by Karolina Westlund PhD!!
Students learn the importance of emotional experiences on animal's personalities, social skills and stress sensitivity. The course covers three major frameworks exploring emotions: Core Affect Space, Polyvagal Theory and Panksepp's Core Emotion Concept. For each of the core emotions (CARE, GRIEF, PLAY, LUST, SEEKING, FEAR, RAGE) there's one module datailing how that particular emotion impacts animals brains, behaviour, and learning - and what animal guardians can do to optimize welfare to get happy animals who thrive with people.
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