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Contains Kenneth D. Roeder's "Some Neuronal Mechanisms of Simple Behavior"; William T. Keeton's "The Orientational and Navigational Basis of Homing in Birds"; Ronald W. Oppenheim's "The Ontogeny of Behavior in the Chick Embroyo"; Walter Heiligenberg's "Processes Governing Behavioral States of Readiness"; "D. J. McFarland's "Time-Sharing as a Behavioral Phenomenon"; Carol Diakow's "Male-Female Interactions and the Organization of Mammalian Mating Patterns."
Contains P. P. G. Bateson's "Specificity and the Origins of Behavior"; Paul Rozin's "The Selection of Foods by Rats, Humans, and Other Animals"; Bennett G. Galef's "Social Transmission of Acquired Behavior: A Discussion of Tradition and Social Learning in Vertebrates"; Sara Blaffer Hrdy's "Care and Exploitation of Nonhuman Primate Infants by Conspecifics Other Than the Mother"; J. B. Hutchison's "Hypothalamic Mechanisms of Sexual Behavior, with Special Reference to Birds"; George N. Wade's "Sex Hormones, Regulatory Behaviors, and Body Weight."
Contains K. V. Shuleikina-Turpaeva's "Sensory Organization of AlimentaryBehavior in the Kitten"; Zuleyma Tang Halpin's "Individual Odors among Mammals: Origins and Functions"; John G. Vendenbergh & Devid M. Coppola's "The Physiology and Ecology of Puberty Modulation by Primer Pheromones"; C. Sue Carter et al's "Relationships between Social Organization and Behavioral Endocrinology in a Monogamous Mammal"; L. J. Rogers' "Lateralization of Learning in Chicks"; Eberhard Gwinner's "Circannual Rhythms in the Control of Avian Migrations"; R. Cy. Ydenberg & L. M. Dill's "The Economics of Fleeing from Predators"; Marc Bekoff & Micahel C. Wells' "Social Ecology and Behavior of Coyotes."
GM 1247 (1st German edition).
One of the great 20th century works in neuroscience, this is a much enlarged version of Kappers' encyclopedic Die vergleichende Anatomie des Nervensystems der Wirbeltiere und des Menschen. (Haarlem: Bohm, 1920, 1921, 2 volumes).
Facsimile reprint of the original Macmillan 1936 edition issued in two volumes.
One of the great 20th century works in neuroscience, this is a much enlarged version of Kappers' encyclopedic Die vergleichende Anatomie des Nervensystems der Wirbeltiere und des Menschen. (Haarlem: Bohm, 1920, 2 volumes).
Contains Pringle "Prologue: The Input Element"; Rushton "The Retinal Organization of Vision in Vertebrates"; Wald et al. "Visual Excitation: a Chemo-anatomical Study"; Kuiper "The Optics of the Compound Eye"; Burtt & Catton "The Resolving Power of the Compound Eye"; Burkhardt "Spectral Sensitivity and Other Respose Characteristics of Single Visual Cells in the Arthropod Eye"; Heath & Vince "Some Non-photosynthetic Effects of Light on Higher Plants with Special Reference to Wavelength"; Whittingham "The Utilization of Radiant Energy in Photosynthesis"; Ingold "The Reaction of Fungi to Light and the Problem of Photoreception"; Davies "The Mechanism of Olaction"; Dethier "Chemoreceptor Mechanisms in Insects"; Audus "The Mechanism of the Perception of Gravity by Plants"; Machin "Electric Receptors"; Murray "Temperature Receptors in Anmimals"; von Békésy "The Gap Between the Hearing of External and Internal Sounds"; Trincker "The Transformation of Mechanical Stimulus into Nervous Excitation by the Labyrinthine Receptors"; Inman "The Electrophysiology of Single Mammalian Mechano-receptors"; Gray "Coding in Systems of Primary Receptor Neurons"; Loewenstein "Epilogue: Receptor Mechanisms."
Crabtree #1036.
OCLC records only two copies in Mexican libraries. A comparative study of infancy and childhood both in animals and man by the great Dutch phenomenological psychologist. Illustrated with photographic plates of both young humans and animals.
Comprehensive collection of papers on the lateral line sensory system of fish.
Contains D. I. Wallis, Aggression in Social Insects—L. Harrison Matthews, Overt Fighting in Mammals—Konrad Lorenz, Ritualized Fighting—K. R. L. Hall, Physiological Background to Aggression—Thelma Veness, Introduction to Hostility in Small Groups—Denis Hill, Aggression and Mental Illness—James Laver, Costume as a Means of Social Aggression—Derek Freeman, Human Aggression in Anthropological Perspective—Stanislav Andreski, Origins of War—Anthony Storr, Possible Substitutes for War—John Burton, The Nature of Aggression as Revealed in the Atomic Age.
Child's most important book. Head of the Dept. of Zoology at the University of Chicago, Child is best known for his work on animal reactivity.
Argues that animal competition, both intra- and interspecific, is inevitable and necessary for the evolution of variety.
Reprint of the 1929 edition.
No copies listed in OCLC.
Freeman 1142; GM 4975; Heirs of Hippocrates 1728; Osler 1574; Waller 2298; Cushing D44.
On the basis of close observation of his children and pets for many years, Darwin conclusively refuted Charles Bell's concept that the expressive muscles in man are a special endowment. "Darwin examined the causes, physiological and psychological, of all the fundamental emotions in man and animals. He concluded that 'the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now innate or inherited', and that most of the movements of expression must have been gradually acquired" [GM]. Published the year after The Descent of Man, The Expression of the Emotions in effect extended evolutionary theory to psychology. Following in Darwin's path, Romanes and Lloyd Morgan created the discipline of comparative psychology.
On the basis of close observation of his children and pets for many years, Darwin conclusively refuted Charles Bell's concept that the expressive muscles in man are a special endowment, formulating three principles underlying emotional expression: 1) Certain movements and actions indicate a particular state of mind and will be reproduced when this state of mind is induced, even though they are of no use; 2) when the state of mind is reversed, the actions are reversed; 3) certain reflex actions depend on the structure of the nervous system. Published the year after The Descent of Man, Expression of the Emotions in effect extended evolutionary theory to psychology. Following in Darwin's path, Romanes and Lloyd Morgan created the discipline of comparative psychology.
A CIBA Foundation Symposium.
Diamond 13.6. The first lengthy treatise on animal automatism.
- "This book is the only published work of an obscure Jesuit priest who died in the year of its publication. The theory presented herein, which is essentially the drainage theory of learning as developed in the late nineteenth century by James and McDougall, is a direct development of the Cartesian automaton theory. It is especially notable because Dilly did not merely link simultaneous events, as Descartes had done and as most associationists continued to do, but described a process whereby the weaker stimulus comes to evoke the response formerly attached to the stronger stimulus — a true conditioning paradigm. … It is known that Locke read this book and brought it back to England with him" [Diamond The Roots of Psychology 13.6, p. 309].
- Obscure though the author was, De l'ame des bêtes proved influential and saw two later editions in 1680 and 1691. Realizing that his hypothesis about animals was a corollary of the Cartesian dichotomy, Dilly reproached Descartes for not having stressed sufficiently the dangerous consequences of the non-automatist view. Nonetheless he lauded Descartes for originating the theory of the beast-machine. See Rosenfeld's From Beast-Machine to Man-Machine, pp. 269-275.
First published in book form in 1908 in Yearsley's English translation, this is a much revised second edition of articles on the subject, the first of which appeared in German in 1878 and the rest in French over the ensuing years. As of the time of publication of this book, there had been no French edition.
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Zürich and director of the world-famous Burghölzli Hospital, Forel was Adolf Meyer's teacher. Interested in ants from childhood, he became the greatest living authority on their behavior. This is his magnum opus on the subject.
Two chapters were added and several chapters rewritten for the second edition.
von Frisch shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology with Tinberge and Lorentz.
With three chapters devoted to the history of the field.
The first book on the psychology of play.
The first book on the psychology of play.
Contains C. F. A. Pantin's "Homeostasis and the Enviroment"; G. A. Bartholomew's "The Role of Physiology and Behaviour in the Maintenance of Homeostasis in the Desert Environment"; J. S. Hart's "Insulative and Metabolic Adaptations to Cold in Vertebrates"; T. H. Benziger's "The Thermal Homeostasis of Man"; G. M. Hughes's "Fish Respiratory Homeostasis"; H. T. Andersen's "Stresses Imposed on Diving Vertebrates during Prolonged Underwater Exposure"; P. J. Randle's "Fuel and Power in the Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism in Mammalian Muscle"; B. A. Cross's "The Hypothalamus in Mammalian Homeostasis"; I. Chester Jones & D. Bellamy's "Hormonal Mechanisms in the Homeostatic Regulatio of the Vertebrate Body with Special Reference to the Adrenal Cortex"; J. Shaw's "The Control of Salt Balance in the Crustacea"; A. Robertson's "Genetic Aspects of Homeostasis"; V. B. Wigglesworth's "Homeostasis in Insect Growth"; J. E. Harker's "Diurnal Rhythyms and Homeostatic Mechanisms"; G. C. Goodwin's "A Statistical Mechanics of Temporal Organization in Cells"; H. Frank's "The Psychological Link of a Statistical Feedback Mechanism explained by Means of Information Theory"; T. Weis-Fogh's "Control of Basic Movements in Flying Insects"; H. Mittelstaedt's "Basic Control Patterns of Orientational Homeostasis"; P. A. Merton's "Human Position Sense and Sense of Effort"; D. H. Fender's "Techniques of Systems-Analysis Applied to Feedback Pathways"; K. E. Machin's "Feedback Theory and Its Application to Biological Systems."
Contains 7 chapters on the psychology of plants and 3 on animals (with one devoted to protozoa).
The first important statement by an experimental comparative psychologist of organismic holism. Jennings opposed Loeb's mechanist explanation of animal behavior, considering Loeb's tropisms artifacts resulting from his experimental design.
Osier & Wozniak A Century of Serial Publications in Psychology 1850-1950: An International Bibliography #191 & #288. The first and primary journal in English with a wealth of important papers in the field. Begun in 1891 as Journal of Comparative Neurology (edited by C. L. Herrick, C. J. Herrick, & Oliver Strong [Osier & Wozniak #108]); continued from 1904-1910 as Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology (edited in various years by the Herricks, Strong, Robert Yerkes, & Herbert Jennings); continued again from volume 21 in 1911 with the original title (edited for the years in this run by C. J. Herrick, by George E. Coghill from 1927-1933; from 1933-1949 by Davenport Hooker; from 1950 by Gerhardt von Bonin).
Contains contributions by Kafka (Tierpsychologie); Thurnwald (on primitive psychology); Giese (children); Gutzmann (language); Runze (religion); Müller-Freienfels (art); Fischer (institutions); Lipmann (occupations); Gruhle (abnormality); Göring (criminal psychology); Sante de Sanctis (dreams); Allers (sex).
Lindsay was an amateur naturalist and Physician to the Murray Royal Inst. (for the Insane) near Perth, Scotland. In this book he combined both his interests. Most of the second volume is devoted to animal abnormal psychology.Published separately because of its length, this was originally designed to appear in the International Scientific Series. Contains a 20 page bibliography. Vol. 1 deals with health; Vol. 2 with disease. An interesting incunable of comparative psychology psychology dealing with, amongst other topics, educability, language, adaptiveness, mental defect, the symptomatology of animal insanity, & man's treatment of the lower animals.
GM #135. Loeb's most-read book and the most important exposition of his monist-mechanist ideas for a lay audience.
Written as a companion volume to his Comparative Physiology of the Brain and Comparative Psychology (1st published in German 1899, English translation 1900), Loeb here tries to found organismic and evolutionary development on Mendelian heredity (which hadn't yet been rediscovered by Bateson when Loeb wrote the earlier book).Perhaps the leading figure in the mechanistic school of animal psychology, Loeb developed the influential theory of tropisms, first presented in his 1890 paper "Der Heliotropismus der Thiere und seine Überstimmung mit den Heliotropismus der Pflanzen." His important 1899 textbook of comparative psychology stressed tropistic behavior and was based on his observations of invertebrates.
Partly a translation of his 1939 Die psychologische Autonomie des organischen Handelns. Loeser, formerly at the University of Berlin before emigrating in 1938 to the UK as a political refugee, argues against the reality of instinct.
Lubbock's pioneering and widely read studies of insect behavior were important to the development of comparative psychology. "An imaginative and ingenious experimenter, Lubbock introduced specificity into the study of insect behavior by amrking individuals with paint for identification, a practice that later became common. He also used obstacles and mazes to test the intelligence of ants, thus anticipating animal psychologists like Köhler" (DSB 8: 528-29).Section 2: Comparative Psychology and Ethology (M-Z)
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