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Konrad Zacharias Lorenz ... introductory psychology textbooks, ... summarized Lorenz's major contribution to ethology as making behavior a topic of biological ...
Zur Naturgeschichte der Aggression, "So-called Evil: on the natural history of aggression") is a 1963 book by the ethologist Konrad Lorenz; it was translated into English in 1966. [1] As he writes in the prologue, "the subject of this book is aggression , that is to say the fighting instinct in beast and man which is directed against members of ...
Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen. Konrad Lorenz had examined the phenomenon of "imprinting" and felt that it might have some parallels to human attachment. Imprinting, a behavior characteristic of some birds and a very few mammals, involves rapid learning of recognition by a young bird or animal exposed to a conspecific or an object or ...
The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) is an international center for advanced studies in the life and sustainability sciences. It is a "Home to Theory that Matters" that supports the articulation, analysis, and integration of theories in biology and the sustainability sciences, exploring their wider scientific ...
1966 – Nancy Bayley became the first woman to receive the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award for her contribution in developmental psychology. [55] 1966 – Konrad Lorenz published On Aggression, which discusses his hydraulic model of instinctive pressures. 1966 – Masters and Johnson published Human Sexual Response.
Human ethology is the study of human behavior. Ethology as a discipline is generally thought of as a sub-category of biology, though psychological theories have been developed based on ethological ideas (e.g. sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, attachment theory, and theories about human universals such as gender differences, incest avoidance, mourning, hierarchy and pursuit of possession).
Ethology links the study of animal behavior and biological perspectives to human behavior and social organization. [2] Ethologist Konrad Lorenz was the first to describe the Kewpie doll effect and propose the effect's possible evolutionary significance, [3] followed by the work of Thomas Alley in 1981.
It was rediscovered by the early ethologist Oskar Heinroth, and studied extensively and popularized by his disciple Konrad Lorenz working with greylag geese. [ 2 ] Lorenz demonstrated how incubator-hatched geese would imprint on the first suitable moving stimulus they saw within what he called a " critical period " between 13 and 16 hours ...