Date: January 22, 2016
Source: Boise State
University
Life is replete with
things we don't like that are good for us. For instance, Brussels sprouts when
you were a kid, or common house spiders under your eaves. But with enough
information about benefits and risks, combined with the passage of time, we
learn to accept and sometimes embrace formerly unpleasant or misunderstood
things.
But what if those things
are potentially dangerous? How can you sway a population to tolerate, say,
endangered tigers and thus enhance worldwide conservation efforts? That was the
question facing Neil Carter, assistant professor in the Human-Environment
Systems program in Boise State University's College of Innovation and Design.
Carter was part of a
study to measure the psychological predictors of tolerance for tigers in the
Bangladesh Sundarbans, where the large carnivores have a rocky and sometimes
violent relationship with local communities.
That study recently was
published in the journal PLOS ONEwith the title, "Toward
Human-Carnivore Coexistence: Understanding Tolerance for Tigers in
Bangladesh." Lead author is Chloe Inskip; additional authors include
Carter, Shawn Riley, Thomas Roberts and Douglas MacMillan.
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