Take the cat tests! Quizzes you can take about “conservative” or cat-like you are.
http://www.allthetests.com/quiz21/quiz/1157081069/How-catlike-are-you
You are obligated to save your own kind now that you know you’re part cat!
-The physical environment is important to identity; people get attached to natural environment and animals. Childhood is important in formation while adulthood experiences reinforce and transform existing schemas. Environmental identity predicts behaviour since it is a representative of self, emulated in our actions with response to nature and motivation of our actions; people desire positive and coherent identity.
-Some tests you can take to know yourself better:
Environmental Identity Scale (EID)—> measures importance of nature in one’s self-identity/ predicts environmental behaviour
Inclusion of Natures in the Self (INS)—> degree you consider yourself as part of nature
Implicit Association Test—> reaction time implies inherent environmental attitudes
-People have a history of identifying with animals; evolutionary mindset affirms this. Human-animal interactions—> affect people’s health, symbolically and metaphorically relate to our identity, comparing ourselves with animals, stereotyping— cat/dog person. Animistic cultures belief that nature has souls, identify with these souls, totems