comparative psychology

(Psychology) the study of the similarities and differences in the behaviour of different species

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comparative psychology - the branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals

animal psychology

psychological science, psychology - the science of mental life

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His theory synthesizes ideas from cognitive science, child development, human evolution, and comparative psychology to create a new framework for understanding the growth of the human mind and emotions in the first seven years of life.

Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny

De Waal also covers a wide-ranging survey of topics pertinent to comparative psychology, but clearly from the perspective of comparative cognition.

And We Are the Easiest to Fool: A Review of Franz de Waal's Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

We first summarize evidence that illustrates the centrality of dance to human life indirectly from archaeology, comparative psychology, developmental psychology, and cross-cultural psychology.

Abstracts from the Current Literature

International Journal of Comparative psychology, 27, 459-473.

Frustration and Social Behavior/Frustracion y conductas sociales/Frustracao e condutas sociais

He goes on to discuss how the methods of comparative psychology may be plausibly extended to test further hypotheses regarding selection pressures leading to capacities for mindreading and the like.

Keith Frankish and William M. Ramsey (eds.): The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science

First, his book Intelligenzprufungen an Menschenaffen (1917) (2) detailed his experimental research on intelligence in anthropoid apes, and made him an eminent figure in comparative psychology in those years.

Wolfgang Kohler's The Mentality of Apes and the animal psychology of his time

Carpenter is a senior scientist in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

Imitating children increases their prosocial behavior

Enviado para su publicacion al Journal of Comparative Psychology.

Bloqueo y ensombrecimiento en un grupo de vertebrados filogeneticamente antiguo: los anfibios

"Dogs' captive environment provides more stimuli that warrant barking," says Sophia Yin, DVM, MS, in her paper on "A New Perspective on Barking in Dogs," published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology. Wolves range about large, open areas while many dogs live in confined spaces, with frequent intruders like mail carriers, she says.

Bark, whine, yelp, growl and howl! Learning how to interpret his vocalizations can help you understand and meet his needs