... interobserver and intraobserver reliability in their characterizations of pig body language. This supports the empirical nature of QBA in context of the wider anthropomorphism debate. animal psychology animal welfare anthropomorphism free-choice profiling pig qualitative behavior assessment Observation...

...This chapter examines the ways in which fascination with the figure of the monkey entered more positively into popular constructions of childhood and the emerging interrelated fields of animal psychology and child development studies in England during the 19th century. The association between...

... quarter of the twentieth century did a significant philosophical literature begin to be developed on both the scientific study of animals and the ethics of human uses of animals. This literature had a primary focus on the discussion of animal psychology, the moral status of animals, the nature...

.... Maier, N. R. F., & Schneirla, T. C. ( 1935 ). Principles of animal psychology. New York: McGraw Hill. Medin, D. L., Roberts, W. A., & Davis, R. T., Eds. ( 1976 ). Processes of animal memory. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Miller, G. A., Galanter, E...

...This article introduces issues on animal psychology, the moral status of animals, the nature and significance of species, and a number of practical problems about the utilization of animals. This book encompasses a diverse set of philosophical interests and it explores an array of concerns about...

...Chapter 8 discusses the rise of physiological and animal psychology in the later nineteenth century and explores how the “new” psychology took up questions about appetite and eating in ways previously excluded by the sciences of mind. French researchers, whose work remained closely tied...

... study of consciousness. Those early psychologists studied human consciousness, but before the end of the century exploration of the animal mind had begun. A key motive for the original interest in animal psychology was the general acceptance of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin C...

... animal psychology philosophy of mind animal behavior philosophy of science An enormously important role has been played in twentieth-century animal science by the principle known as “Morgan’s Canon,” first formulated in the nineteenth century by Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1852–1936), a British ethologist...

.... Behaviorism held such sway that animal psychology in the United States took years to return to its evolutionary roots and recognize the importance of ethology and related disciplines. Perhaps modern ethology and evolutionary ecology have benefited in return—at least from the disciplined thought about animal...