Hunting for trophies : Online hunting photographs reveal achievement satisfaction with large and dangerous prey
| dc.contributor.author | Child, K. R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Darimont, C. T. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-10T23:37:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-07-02T11:22:04Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2015 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | Final accepted version of article. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Despite its manifold implications, insight into what satisfactions hunters derive from trophy hunting has not been thoroughly investigated. We used a novel method to assess how common satisfaction might be from harvesting animals under different achievement contexts. We scored smile types – signals of emotion and satisfaction – in 2,791 online hunting photographs. We show that the odds of true ‘pleasure’ smiles are greater when hunters pose: (a) with vs. without prey, (b) with large vs. small prey and, (c) with carnivores vs. herbivores (among older men). We emerge with a generalizable achievement-oriented hypothesis to propose that the prospect of displaying large and/or dangerous prey at least in part underlies the behavior of many contemporary hunters. Given that achievement was also likely important among ancestral hunter-gatherers and remains so in contemporary cultural and commercial marketing contexts, management might benefit by increased attention to achievement satisfaction among hunters. | en_US |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The lead author was supported by a University of Victoria Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award and the second author by a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant 435683 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Child, KR & CT Darimont. (2015) Hunting for trophies: Online hunting photographs reveal achievement satisfaction with large and dangerous prey. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. v 20, n. 6. (in press) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | www.tandfonline.com/loi/uhdw20 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6255 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis | en_US |
| dc.subject | conservation | |
| dc.subject | human predators | |
| dc.subject | internet | |
| dc.subject | trophy hunting | |
| dc.subject | smile type | |
| dc.subject | online forums | |
| dc.subject | size-selective predation | |
| dc.subject.department | Department of Geography | |
| dc.title | Hunting for trophies : Online hunting photographs reveal achievement satisfaction with large and dangerous prey | en_US |
| dc.type | Preprint | en_US |