Ronald Baenninger
Biographic Data
| ID | 120281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald Baenninger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald |
| FAMILY NAME | Baenninger |
| SIGNATURE | BAENNINGER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
David Kipnis (1924-1999)
David Kipnis (1924-1999)
Modification of instinctive herding dog behavior using reinforcement and punishment
Instinctive" behavior may be modified using operant techniques. We report here on a field study of training herding dogs in which reinforcers and punishers were used by owners, who were themselves being trained to control their dogs. Access to sheep was assumed to be a primary reinforcer for herding dogs. While blocking their access was aversive to them. Over several months, the number of blocking and access actions by the human were scored durin…
John Paul Scott (1909–2000)
Child abuse, domestic violence, and animal abuse; Cruelty to animals and interpersonal violence
Edited by Frank R. Ascione and Phil Arkow. West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University Press, 1998, 479 pp. Edited by Randall Lockwood and Frank R. Ascione. West Layfayette, IN, Purdue University Press, 1997, 464 pp.
What's in a Name? Uncovering the Connotative Meanings of Animal Names
Osgood's Semantic Differential technique was used with a sample of 12 animal names to see if they elicited responses that were distinctively characteristic, and therefore useful in uncovering connotative meaning. The 100 survey participants responded with unanimity to some species, whereas their responses to others were highly variable. Results disclosed a taxonomy of grouping animal names that differed from the normal zoological taxonomy. This s…
Bonobo
Bonobo
Murder most foul
Male and female students (N = 761) attending university in Canada and the U.S. were asked if they would personally kill someone they knew and thoroughly hated under conditions of anonymity. Among Canadian subjects, males, those who were not religious, foreign students and those scoring high on irritation or assaultive tendencies were most likely to endorse the “murder” item. Among U.S. subjects, only irritability was a significant predictor of th…
Some Consequences of Animal Domestication for Humans
Throughout human evolution our species has had many kinds of interactions with others, including predatory, competitive, parasitic, mutualistic, and commensal. We still have such interactions in the modern world, with the most important resulting from our domestication of other species. Domestication created new kinds of interaction by which we controlled the freedom and reproduction of certain animals. Because domesticated populations became dep…
Vanishing Species
A survey of nearly 1700 paintings from seventeen major museums in Europe and North America disclosed a steady decline in the appearance of animals. While 64% of the works from ancient Egypt and Persia contained animal representations, only 15% of the twentieth-century paintings showed animals as either a central or peripheral part of the compositions. These results were essentially replicated in a survey of major art history texts, the illustrati…
Consequences of aggressive threats by Betta splendens
Male Siamese fighting fish continued to approach visual stimuli associated with conspecifics in the absence of opportunities to perform threat displays or to attack. Dominant fish performed more operant responses than subordinates when such responses led to the appearance of their own mirror images, and all fish learned to delay their threat displays if these resulted in disappearance of the mirror image. In a second experiment, subjects overwhel…
Chimpanzee politics
The biology of peace and war
On predictions of violent acts
Some aspects of predatory behavior
Predatory behavior is conceived of as a loose chain of responses including searching for relevant stimuli, hunting or chasing potential prey, capturing or attacking prey, and killing and feeding on prey. These aspects, which may occur independently, are described and discussed separately with an emphasis on mammalian species of carnivores. Particular attention is paid to opportunism in prey selection, specific searching images with their possible…
Some consequences of aggressive behavior
Animal experiments in which the opportunity to aggress was positively reinforcing are surveyed, with attention paid to field and laboratory reports on play and play fighting. A distinction is drawn between ways in which aggressive behavior may be elicited and factors which increase or decrease the probability that aggression will be emitted. Since aggression may be emitted and may also be reinforcing, the possibility that aggressive behavior may …
Effect of Environmental Change and Electric Shock on Water Consumption in the Rat
The normal range of water consumption in 1 hr. after 23 hr. of deprivation was derermined for 45 naive female albino rats. Fifteen control Ss remained on 23-hr. deprivation undisturbed in the home cage. Thirty Ss were placed in a grill box without shock for 15 min. per day for five days just prior to the drinking period in the home cage. This procedure significantly depressed drinking for one day. Fifteen of these 30 Ss then received 0.09 ma. of …
Modification of instinctive herding dog behavior using reinforcement and punishment
Instinctive" behavior may be modified using operant techniques. We report here on a field study of training herding dogs in which reinforcers and punishers were used by owners, who were themselves being trained to control their dogs. Access to sheep was assumed to be a primary reinforcer for herding dogs. While blocking their access was aversive to them. Over several months, the number of blocking and access actions by the human were scored durin…
Some Consequences of Animal Domestication for Humans
Throughout human evolution our species has had many kinds of interactions with others, including predatory, competitive, parasitic, mutualistic, and commensal. We still have such interactions in the modern world, with the most important resulting from our domestication of other species. Domestication created new kinds of interaction by which we controlled the freedom and reproduction of certain animals. Because domesticated populations became dep…
Vanishing Species
A survey of nearly 1700 paintings from seventeen major museums in Europe and North America disclosed a steady decline in the appearance of animals. While 64% of the works from ancient Egypt and Persia contained animal representations, only 15% of the twentieth-century paintings showed animals as either a central or peripheral part of the compositions. These results were essentially replicated in a survey of major art history texts, the illustrati…
Effect of Environmental Change and Electric Shock on Water Consumption in the Rat
The normal range of water consumption in 1 hr. after 23 hr. of deprivation was derermined for 45 naive female albino rats. Fifteen control Ss remained on 23-hr. deprivation undisturbed in the home cage. Thirty Ss were placed in a grill box without shock for 15 min. per day for five days just prior to the drinking period in the home cage. This procedure significantly depressed drinking for one day. Fifteen of these 30 Ss then received 0.09 ma. of …
Some consequences of aggressive behavior
Animal experiments in which the opportunity to aggress was positively reinforcing are surveyed, with attention paid to field and laboratory reports on play and play fighting. A distinction is drawn between ways in which aggressive behavior may be elicited and factors which increase or decrease the probability that aggression will be emitted. Since aggression may be emitted and may also be reinforcing, the possibility that aggressive behavior may …
Some aspects of predatory behavior
Predatory behavior is conceived of as a loose chain of responses including searching for relevant stimuli, hunting or chasing potential prey, capturing or attacking prey, and killing and feeding on prey. These aspects, which may occur independently, are described and discussed separately with an emphasis on mammalian species of carnivores. Particular attention is paid to opportunism in prey selection, specific searching images with their possible…
On predictions of violent acts
The biology of peace and war
Consequences of aggressive threats by Betta splendens
Male Siamese fighting fish continued to approach visual stimuli associated with conspecifics in the absence of opportunities to perform threat displays or to attack. Dominant fish performed more operant responses than subordinates when such responses led to the appearance of their own mirror images, and all fish learned to delay their threat displays if these resulted in disappearance of the mirror image. In a second experiment, subjects overwhel…
Chimpanzee politics
Vanishing Species
A survey of nearly 1700 paintings from seventeen major museums in Europe and North America disclosed a steady decline in the appearance of animals. While 64% of the works from ancient Egypt and Persia contained animal representations, only 15% of the twentieth-century paintings showed animals as either a central or peripheral part of the compositions. These results were essentially replicated in a survey of major art history texts, the illustrati…
Some Consequences of Animal Domestication for Humans
Throughout human evolution our species has had many kinds of interactions with others, including predatory, competitive, parasitic, mutualistic, and commensal. We still have such interactions in the modern world, with the most important resulting from our domestication of other species. Domestication created new kinds of interaction by which we controlled the freedom and reproduction of certain animals. Because domesticated populations became dep…
Murder most foul
Male and female students (N = 761) attending university in Canada and the U.S. were asked if they would personally kill someone they knew and thoroughly hated under conditions of anonymity. Among Canadian subjects, males, those who were not religious, foreign students and those scoring high on irritation or assaultive tendencies were most likely to endorse the “murder” item. Among U.S. subjects, only irritability was a significant predictor of th…
Bonobo
Bonobo
Child abuse, domestic violence, and animal abuse; Cruelty to animals and interpersonal violence
Edited by Frank R. Ascione and Phil Arkow. West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University Press, 1998, 479 pp. Edited by Randall Lockwood and Frank R. Ascione. West Layfayette, IN, Purdue University Press, 1997, 464 pp.
What's in a Name? Uncovering the Connotative Meanings of Animal Names
Osgood's Semantic Differential technique was used with a sample of 12 animal names to see if they elicited responses that were distinctively characteristic, and therefore useful in uncovering connotative meaning. The 100 survey participants responded with unanimity to some species, whereas their responses to others were highly variable. Results disclosed a taxonomy of grouping animal names that differed from the normal zoological taxonomy. This s…
John Paul Scott (1909–2000)
David Kipnis (1924-1999)
David Kipnis (1924-1999)
Modification of instinctive herding dog behavior using reinforcement and punishment
Instinctive" behavior may be modified using operant techniques. We report here on a field study of training herding dogs in which reinforcers and punishers were used by owners, who were themselves being trained to control their dogs. Access to sheep was assumed to be a primary reinforcer for herding dogs. While blocking their access was aversive to them. Over several months, the number of blocking and access actions by the human were scored durin…
Psychology (15 works) · Biology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Citation (5 works) · Library science (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Aggression (4 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (4 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (4 works)