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In 1962 it was a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction. [11] In 1969 Time magazine named African Genesis the most notable nonfiction book of the 1960s. [12] The book has continued to bear on the popular imagination of human nature. The theories of Dart and Ardrey flew in the face of prevailing theories of human origins.
The Animal in You is a 1995 non-fiction book by Roy Feinson, which posits a biological basis as to why people tend to exhibit personality traits similar to animal species. The book hypothesizes that through the process of convergent evolution , people adopt a niche set of behaviors enabling them to cope with their particular social milieu in ...
1977 – Albert Bandura published the book Social Learning Theory and an article on the concept of self-efficacy, A Unifying Theory of Behavioral Change. [61] 1977 – Susan Folstein and Michael Rutter published a study of 21 British twins in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry that reveals a high genetic component in autism. [62]
Bruno Klopfer (1 October 1900 – 23 October 1971) was a German psychologist, born in Bavaria.. He had a profound impact on the development of psychological personality testing, and was an important pioneer and innovator in the development, scoring and popularization of projective techniques, especially the Rorschach inkblot test.
He was considered a humanist who developed a philosophical pedagogy as an act of 'self defense' against the psychology-oriented experimental theory of the times. [1] Spranger was the author of the book Lebensformen (Translated as Types of Men), which sold 28,000 copies by the end of 1920. Spranger theorizes that types of human life are ...
For example, the study of personality in chimpanzees by King and Figueredo in 1997 [31] was one of the first studies to apply the five-factor model in animal personality. It demonstrated the existence of personality traits in animals and provided a foundation for similar assessment strategies in future studies of personality in animals. [8]
1962 was a common year ... of The Incredible Hulk #1 as the first issue of the comic book, with cover date of May 1962. ... zookeeper, television personality ...
Alex (May 18, 1976 – September 6, 2007) [1] was a grey parrot and the subject of a thirty-year experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg, initially at the University of Arizona and later at Harvard University and Brandeis University. When Alex was about one year old, Pepperberg bought him at a pet shop. [2]