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Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology. By Prof. J. B. Watson. Pp. xii + 439. (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1914.) Price 1.75 dollars.
The work is published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology. Anna Wilkinson, professor of animal cognition, explained: "This novel training approach made dogs better able to alert to slightly ...
Along the way, he dropped the philosophy and received his PhD in psychology in 1903. Five years later, Johns Hopkins University appointed him professor of experimental and comparative psychology.
The Colour Sense: its Origin and Development. An Essay in Comparative Psychology. By Grant Allen (London: Trübner and Co., 1879.) ...
By studying animal behavior, humans can also learn more about their own behavior—a field known as comparative psychology. Many researchers who study animal cognition agree that animals “think ...
In a 2024 review paper (“Cultural Psychology: Beyond East and West”), Kitayama and Salvador summarize decades of findings in comparative psychology across cultures. Interestingly, the meaning ...
Because of their miniature brains, bees are model for the question of how much intelligent behaviour can be mediated with how little neural circuitry. We explore the mental lives of bees, including ...