he leads the reader through the work of early researchers (including Pavlov’s dogs and Skinner’s pigeons), into a discussion of the malleability of memory and emotion, and the complex questions surrounding consciousness. It would be perfect for the curious layman or a switched-on school leaver...
MMF:Dog Politicscould potentially speak to a wide range of audiences. Although this book is aimed primarily at animal studies scholars, some chapters, I hope, will be of interest to people who live or work with dogs. I'm thinking here of chapter one, which is about how we might...
The book club is open to subscribers to theCompanion Animal Psychology newsletterorsubstack. Details of how to join are included in your welcome emails. Here's the first sentence of the introduction to whet your appetite: "Dogs Demystified is an easy-toread, easy-to-use, A-to-Z guide--or...
Puppy (or pup) play is a type of role-play behavior in which adult humans adopt the characteristics of dogs (puppies, in particular) (Wignall & McCormack,2017). It emerged out of—and is still in large part related to—the broader BDSM/leather community (Lawson & Langdridge,2019; Wigna...
and spreading up-to-date information that will help improve the lives and welfare of our dogs. This book addresses the issues that we, the authors, encountered time and time again in our work with puppies. Why Dogs Don't Need Tough Love. ...
“One of the most impressive aspects of the most recent edition of this book, the original of which was published in the last century, is the clarity, thoroughness, and compassion with which the authors respond not only to the traditional ethical dilemmas confronted by psychologists and counselors...
“One of the most impressive aspects of the most recent edition of this book, the original of which was published in the last century, is the clarity, thoroughness, and compassion with which the authors respond not only to the traditional ethical dilemmas confronted by psychologists and counselors...
Research on the development of associations was also advanced by the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov(1849-1936).As is well-known,Pavlov(1927)demonstrated that dogs associate the clicking sound of a metronome with food,such that,after repeated presentations of the two stimuli,the metronome itself ...
Books: Fat Fish, Black Dogs and Suffering Souls ; the Mind, and Its Maladies, Still Hold Mysteries That Biology and Psychology Struggle to Explain. Caroline Pond (Left) Asks If the Same Diet That Helped Humans to Evolve Also Drove Them Mad; While William Palmer (Right) Explores the Roots ...
Another Gestalt Psychology example can be based on one or more of the main principles of this school of thought. The similarity law clearly demonstrates how we simplify information. A group of many different breeds of dogs will be perceived as“a group of dogs”instead of“a Pomeranian, a la...