Donald A Dewsbury
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1046956 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Donald A Dewsbury |
| PRENOMES | Donald A |
| SOBRENOME | Dewsbury |
| ASSINATURA | DEWSBURY D A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Florida |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Wilse Bernard (Bernie) Webb (1920–2018)
Presents an obituary of Wilse Bernard (Bernie) Webb (1920-2018). Webb was an effective researcher and administrator but also an overall colorful personality. His evolving research career was highlighted by work on learning mechanisms and studies of aircraft accidents. He became most widely known for his important early work on biological rhythms, individual difference, effects of sleep deprivation, and theories of sleep. In 1958 Bernie was appoin…
The History of Psychology Newsletter, 1969–1997
During 1968-1997, Division 26 of the American Psychological Association, now the Society for the History of Psychology, and its predecessor, the History of Psychology Group, published a series of some 101 newsletters. These are a form of gray literature unfamiliar to some historians of psychology. I provide both an overview of the newsletters and their history and some highlights of the 153 substantive articles appearing in the newsletter through…
Comparative Psychology in Historical Perspective
Comparative psychology entails the search for general principles regarding the immediate control, development, adaptive function, and evolutionary histories of behavioral patterns. It has been a part of the discipline of psychology since its inception as a separate field of inquiry. I trace the history of comparative psychology from the earliest evidence of interest in animals to the present. Although comparative psychology as a subdiscipline can…
Samuel Fernberger's rejected doctoral dissertation
I summarize a never-completed 1911 doctoral dissertation on ape behavior by Samuel Fernberger of the University of Pennsylvania. Included are observations on many behavioral patterns including sensory and perceptual function, learning, memory, attention, imagination, personality, and emotion in an orangutan and two chimpanzees. There are examples of behavior resembling insight, conscience, tool use and imitation. Language comprehension was good b…
Charles Darwin and psychology at the bicentennial and sesquicentennial
This article provides an introduction to the special issue on Darwin and psychology at the bicentennial of his birth and the sesquicentennial of his publication of On the Origin of Species. His core contributions, as viewed today, were his theory of natural selection, his naturalistic philosophy, and his mass of evidence for evolutionary change. A brief summary of Darwin's life is also presented. Among Darwin's contributions to psychology were hi…
More on evolution and psychology
Catherine Hayes Nissen (1921-2008)
Curt Richter
Obituary
Niko's nature
Donald Redfield Griffin (1915-2003)
The 1973 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for 1973 was awarded to 3 ethologists: Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, and Nikolaas Tinbergen. This was a landmark event in the history of the field of ethology and potentially for the behavioral sciences more broadly. For the first time, the prize was awarded for research of a purely behavioral nature. The language used in making the award emphasized the implications of ethological work for human health…
Love at Goon Park
The Chicago Five
The "Chicago Five" was a group of integrative psychobiologists, including Frank A. Beach, Donald O. Hebb, David Krech, Norman R. F. Maier, and Theodore C. Schneirla, all of whom worked with Karl S. Lashley at the University of Chicago during 1929 -1935. Although they went on to careers in diverse fields of psychology, their approaches reflect a set of underlying themes that can be traced to their experiences in Chicago. Nine primary beliefs that,…
The role of evidence in interpretations of the scientific work of Karl Lashley
I discuss some of the issues underlying the different perspectives of Nadine Weidman and myself on the scientific oeuvre of Karl Lashley. I emphasize that our disagreements concern the kind of evidence needed to support specific claims more than any differences in our models of science. (c) 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
Constructing representations of Karl Spencer Lashley
I compare, contrast, and analyze two published constructions, a straightforward approach and a social constructivist perspective, of the life and work of psychobiologist Karl S. Lashley (1890-1958). Although it is clear at a general level that scientific endeavors are affected by extrascientific factors, particular concern is directed at the issues involved in demonstrating that the scientific work of an individual, in this case Lashley, is affec…
Obituary
Obituary
John Paul Scott (1909-2000)
Sensory exotica
Issues in comparative psychology at the dawn of the 20th century
Introduction
Issues in comparative psychology at the dawn of the 20th century
Comparative psychology emerged as part of the "new psychology" that took hold in the United States around 1900. Many of the issues that have occupied comparative psychologists throughout the 20th century were developed as research problems during this period. In some respects, comparative psychology was then an integral and widely respected part of psychology at large; in others, it was already marginalized. Issues emerging during this critical p…
Introduction
Obituary
Different levels of complexity in the play‐fighting by muroid rodents appear to result from different levels of intensity of attack and defense
Play‐fighting in deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii , prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster , and montane voles, M. Montanus , was compared to that of laboratory rats, Rattus norvegicus . Play in rats appears more complex for two reasons: 1) more of the playful contacts elicit defensive behaviors, and 2) more of these defenses lead to counterattacks, and hence, role reversals between attackers and defenders. Neither high levels of defense, a…
Robert Yerkes, sex research, and the problem of data simplification
The Chicago Five
The "Chicago Five" was a group of integrative psychobiologists, including Frank A. Beach, Donald O. Hebb, David Krech, Norman R. F. Maier, and Theodore C. Schneirla, all of whom worked with Karl S. Lashley at the University of Chicago during 1929 -1935. Although they went on to careers in diverse fields of psychology, their approaches reflect a set of underlying themes that can be traced to their experiences in Chicago. Nine primary beliefs that,…
Constructing representations of Karl Spencer Lashley
I compare, contrast, and analyze two published constructions, a straightforward approach and a social constructivist perspective, of the life and work of psychobiologist Karl S. Lashley (1890-1958). Although it is clear at a general level that scientific endeavors are affected by extrascientific factors, particular concern is directed at the issues involved in demonstrating that the scientific work of an individual, in this case Lashley, is affec…
Psychobiology
Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988)
Samuel Fernberger's rejected doctoral dissertation
I summarize a never-completed 1911 doctoral dissertation on ape behavior by Samuel Fernberger of the University of Pennsylvania. Included are observations on many behavioral patterns including sensory and perceptual function, learning, memory, attention, imagination, personality, and emotion in an orangutan and two chimpanzees. There are examples of behavior resembling insight, conscience, tool use and imitation. Language comprehension was good b…
Charles Darwin and psychology at the bicentennial and sesquicentennial
This article provides an introduction to the special issue on Darwin and psychology at the bicentennial of his birth and the sesquicentennial of his publication of On the Origin of Species. His core contributions, as viewed today, were his theory of natural selection, his naturalistic philosophy, and his mass of evidence for evolutionary change. A brief summary of Darwin's life is also presented. Among Darwin's contributions to psychology were hi…
More on evolution and psychology
The role of evidence in interpretations of the scientific work of Karl Lashley
I discuss some of the issues underlying the different perspectives of Nadine Weidman and myself on the scientific oeuvre of Karl Lashley. I emphasize that our disagreements concern the kind of evidence needed to support specific claims more than any differences in our models of science. (c) 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
Copulatory Behavior in Rats
12 male rats were each given two copulation tests continued to a satiety criterion of 30 min. with no intromissions. In one test the same female was used throughout, while in the other the female was changed after each ejaculation. In addition to previously established phenomena, and independent of changes in the female, ejaculation latency and mean inter-intromission interval increased as satiety was approached. Existent models of the control of…
Food Hoarding in Rice Rats and Cotton Rats
Effects of novelty of copulatory behavior
Effects of novelty of copulatory behavior
A comparative study of rodent social behavior in a seminatural enclosure
Social behavior, aggression, and copulation were studied in six groups of two males and two females each in seven species of muroid rodents (Clethrionomys gapperi, Microtus montanus, M ochrogaster, M pennsylvanicus, Peromyscus eremicus, P leucopus, and P polionotus) in a seminatural enclosure. Data were compared to those from an earlier study with P maniculatus tested under identical conditions. There were appreciable species differences in level…
Copulatory patterns of primates as viewed in broad mammalian perspective
The goals of this review are to classify the patterns of copulatory behavior displayed by various species of primates, to compare them to the patterns of nonprimate mammalian species, and to search for correlates of the various patterns. Copulatory patterns are classified in relation to the presence or absence of four defining attributes: a lock, thrusting during intromissions, multiple intromissions, and multiple ejaculations. Literature on copu…
Different levels of complexity in the play‐fighting by muroid rodents appear to result from different levels of intensity of attack and defense
Play‐fighting in deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii , prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster , and montane voles, M. Montanus , was compared to that of laboratory rats, Rattus norvegicus . Play in rats appears more complex for two reasons: 1) more of the playful contacts elicit defensive behaviors, and 2) more of these defenses lead to counterattacks, and hence, role reversals between attackers and defenders. Neither high levels of defense, a…
Early interactions between animal psychologists and animal activists and the founding of the APA Committee on Precautions in Animal Experimentation
The current conflict between animal psychologists and animal rights activists often is presented as a recent and unique phenomenon. Although its scope may be unprecedented, the fundamental issues are longstanding. Early criticisms of animal psychologists are viewed in the context of the broader Victorian antivivisectionist movement and are seen as similar to those of the present time. Various attitudes toward animals and research were expressed b…
Early interactions between animal psychologists and animal activists and the founding of the APA Committee on Precautions in Animal Experimentation
Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907-1988)
Whither the introductory course in the history of psychology
Targets and tactics of agonistic and precopulatory behavior in montane and prairie voles
Play-fighting by juvenile montane and prairie voles involves attack and defense of the head, neck and shoulders. Since during play animals typically borrow behavior patterns from other functional contexts, two adult behavioral contexts were compared to juvenile play-fighting. These were serious fighting and sexual encounters. During serious fighting in a resident-intruder paradigm, most bites are directed at the rump and lower flanks. During sexu…
Psychobiology
Comparative psychology and ethology
Comparative psychology and ethology
Disentangling the contribution of the attacker from that of defender in the differences in the intraspecific fighting in two species of voles
In a previous study we found that in the intraspecific, resident-intruder fights of males of two vole species there were significant differences in the frequency of use of some of the behavior patterns used for attack and defense. To determine whether the species differences were due to differences in the behavior of the attacker (resident), defender (intruder), or some combination of both, a detailed frame-by-frame analysis of videorecorded sequ…
Supine defense in the intraspecific fighting of male house micemus domesticus
House mice have been reported rarely to perform the supine behavior pattern as a defensive tactic during intraspecific fighting. However, in this study of intraspecific fighting by male mice, it is shown that mice do indeed rotate to supine. This maneuver is used to evade or extricate themselves from bites to the lower dorsum by the attacking opponent. Once free from the bite the defender does not remain supine, but will immediately turn to prone…
Vygotsky's Psychology
Affiliative Behavior in Different Species of Voles ( Microtus )
Data were collected on the huddling behavior of pine voles, Microtus pinetorum, and meadow voles, M. pennsylvanicus, to supplement earlier data on prairie voles and montane voles. Species that are social/monogamous in the field tended to huddle more in the laboratory. Contact proneness may be one factor driving different mating systems in the field
Contributions to the History of Psychology. XCIV. The Boys of Summer at the End of Summer
I summarize a previously unknown body of correspondence between John B. Watson and Karl S. Lashley near the ends of their lives in the 1950s. Among the issues discussed were psychology, sex, marriage, their health, and pride. These letters help to provide depth and perspective on these important psychologists and their times
On publishing controversy
The award of the AAAS Thousand Dollar Prize to Norman R. F. Maier in 1938 for research on conflict-induced seizures in rats was a major event that received appreciable media coverage. However, substantial criticism of Maier's research, spearheaded by Clifford T. Morgan, eventually led to the generally accepted conclusion that the seizures were artifactual and "audiogenic." Unpublished documents have revealed, contrary to the public conclusion of …
On publishing controversy
Inhibition
Robert Yerkes' Rabbit
A case of distortion in the history of psychology literature is described. Three significant details of an incident in the boyhood of Robert Yerkes were distorted in a recent article. It is important that such errors be corrected because they can greatly alter interpretations of the significance of historical events and they are difficult to eliminate from the secondary literature once perpetrated
The journal wedge
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