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Pathfinder: Animal Behavior
Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Web
Sites
SCOPE: Researchers
have found psychological similarities between people and
animals. In most cases, the observed behavior was in a
controlled study as in Pavlov’s classical conditional
experiments and Skinner’s experiments with rats in the
“Skinner Box.” Unlike humans, animals cannot be held
responsible for their behavior. Thus, the primary focus
of research is on the how and what animals learn and how
they behave. (Kazdin, Encyclopedia of Psychology) The
purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline
for student research. It is not intended as a
comprehensive listing of all the materials available on
this topic, but as a selective sampling of the many
types of resources available in the library.
Books dealing with animal behavior are listed in the
Baddour Library online catalog under the following
subject headings:
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Animal behavior
Cats—Behavior
Dogs—Behavior
Dogs—Psychology
Cats—Psychology
Human-animal relationships
Animal psychology
Cognition in animals
Social behavior in animals
There are sources located in the Reference Section of
the Baddour Library that give a general overview or
summary of the topic you are researching. The following
is a list of some of the sources available in the
library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF BF31.E52 2000 Encyclopedia of Psychology
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Burkhardt, Richard W.
Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and
the
Founding of Ethology. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2005.
Dugatkin, Lee Alan.
Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of
Cooperation in Animals and Humans. New York: Free
Press, 1999.
Festa-Bianchet, Marco and Marco Apollonio.
Animal Behavior and Wildlife
Conservation. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003.
Hauser, Marc D.
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think. New York:
Henry Holt, 2000.
Irvine, Leslie.
If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connection with
Animals.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
Niehoff, Debra.
The Biology of Violence: How Understanding the Brain,
Behavior, and
Environment Can Break the Vicious Circle of Aggression.
New York: Free Press,
1999.
Waal, F.B. M. de.
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We
Are Who We Are. New York: Riverhead Books, 2005.
Wright, John C.
The Dog Who Would be King: Tales and Surprising Lessons
from a Pet Psychologist. Emmaus, Pa: Rodale Press,
1999.
Some of the periodicals the library subscribes to that
focus on this topic include:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
WEB SITES
Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
(Indiana University)
http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/
Updated
02/21/2007
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