斑比效應

斑比效應（英語：Bambi effect）指的是受到此效應影響的人，將會極力反對人類殺害一般被公認為「可愛」的動物（特別是狗或兔^[1]以及其他的寵物^[2]），但同時卻不會反對殺害那些「不可愛」的動物。例如蜥蜴以及蛇。這通常被視為一種不正常、不符合道義的心理現象。

根據一本有關擬人論的書籍^[3]，斑比效應主要的影響來源是華特迪士尼於1942年製作的動畫電影《小鹿斑比》其中的一段劇情：主角斑比（Bambi）的母親被獵人殺害的片段。^[4][5][6]

參考資料

1. Knight, John. Waiting for wolves in Japan: an anthropological study of people-wildlife relations. Oxford UP. 2003: 155. ISBN 9780199255184.
2. Nash, Susan Smith. Leadership and the E-Learning Organization. Texture. 2006: 222. ISBN 9780971206168.
3. Petersen, Hanne; Birger Poppel. Dependency, autonomy, sustainability in the Arctic. Ashgate. 1999: 286. ISBN 9781840147018. 引文使用過時參數coauthors (幫助)
4. The Bambi Effect. Portland Mercury. [2007-09-25]. （原始內容存檔於2020-11-27）. This is the Bambi Effect: our adverse reaction to cute critters being harmed.
5. Anti-hunting sentiment on the wane.. Times Community Newspapers. [2007-09-25]. （原始內容存檔於2006-04-23）. Remarking on the "Bambi Effect," noted demographer Diane Crispell wrote: "Ever since (the Walt Disney classic movie) Bambi, hunters have been typecast in the media as villains who take shots at anything that moves for the sheer love of killing."
6. Boardman, Robert; Debora VanNijnatten. Canadian environmental policy: context and cases. Oxford UP. 2002. 引文使用過時參數coauthors (幫助)