Douglas Keith Candland

Feral Children and Clever Animals

Reflections on Human Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

In this provocative book, Douglas Keith Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans 'think, ' we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 697g
• ISBN-13: 9780195102840
• ISBN-10: 0195102843
• Artikelnr.: 22439282

Autorenporträt

Douglas Keith Candland is Professor of Psychology and Animal Behavior at Bucknell University. He has written for publications as diverse as The New Yorker and American Psychologist, and is the author of Psychology: The Experimental Approach (Second Edition, 1978), Emotion (1977), and Psychology (1962).

Inhaltsangabe

What Feral Children Tell Us: Nature and Nurture: Children without Human Parenting
Kaspar Hauser and the Wolf-Children
Four Psychologies
Thinking about the Mind
The Psychology of Psychoanalysis
Freud and Little Hans
The Psychology of Experimentalism and Behaviourism: Clever Hans and Lady Wonder
Experimentation and Experimenter: Clever Hans's Companions
The Psychology of Perceiving: Phenomenology and Ethology
The Mental Ladder: Peter and Moses, Chimpanzees Who Write
Exploiting the Missing Link
People and Apes Communicating: Raising Human Babies with Chimps: Donald, Gua, and Viki
Human and Ape Communication: Washoe, Koko, and Nim
Language and Meaning: Sarah and Lana, Sherman and Austin, Kanzi and Ai
Principles and Myths: Feral Children and Clever Animals
Postlude
Notes
References
Illustration Credits
Text Credits
Index.