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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 ...
Studies in Animal and Human Behavior, Volume I (1970) Studies in Animal and Human Behavior, Volume II (1971) Motivation of Human and Animal Behavior: An Ethological View. With Paul Leyhausen (1973). New York: D. Van Nostrand Co. ISBN 0-442-24886-5; Behind the Mirror: A Search for a Natural History of Human Knowledge (1973) (Die Rückseite des ...
This theory is based on Lorenz's Hydraulic Model of Motivation, which attempts to explain the mechanism of FAPs by equating energy input to water adding up in a container, leading to a valve which, under normal circumstances, is opened upon addition of a releaser or sign stimulus, to produce a FAP.
Konrad Lorenz stated in his 1963 classic, On Aggression, that human behavior is shaped by four main, survival-seeking animal drives. Taken together, these drives—hunger, fear, reproduction, and aggression—achieve natural selection. [ 118 ]
An important development, associated with the name of Konrad Lorenz though probably due more to his teacher, Oskar Heinroth, was the identification of fixed action patterns. Lorenz popularized these as instinctive responses that would occur reliably in the presence of identifiable stimuli called sign stimuli or "releasing stimuli".
A greylag goose which participates in the described egg-retrieval behavior. Another example of a behavior that has been described as a fixed action pattern is the egg-retrieval behavior of the greylag goose, reported in classic studies by Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. [5]
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 ...
Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (German: Die acht Todsünden der zivilisierten Menschheit) is a book by the Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz.It is about major threats against humans that Lorenz sees in ingoing disregards of nature and in new and emerging technologies.