Comparative Psychology

In Learning from Animals? experts present empirical research, analyze issues raised by comparative approaches and debate their consequences for an understanding of human uniqueness...

Wilhelm Wundt is known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. The first person to ever call himself a Psychologist, he is also widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology", having established the first laboratory in the world dedicated to psychological research. Thi..

Originally published in 1976, this volume reports research that will help us to understand the causes of psychogenic diseases. It deals both experimentally and theoretically with the question of symptom specificity in psychosomatic research...

Originally published in 1985, the aim of this book was to examine the development of adaptive skills in a comparative context. The problems explored are theoretically rich and methodically significant and the comparative scope of the contributions range widely among vertebrate species...