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The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology is an international reference work that offers scientists and students a balanced overview of current research in the field of comparative psychology and animal behavior.
The book takes an integrative approach to animal behavior, with most of the chapters discussing research involving both proximate (developmental and mechanistic) and ultimate (functional and phylogenetic) levels of analysis. Chapters cover the major ideas of core topics in the field and examine emerging research trends to provide readers deeper understanding of these ideas. One of the strengths of this book is its the coverage of core topics in comparative psychology and animal behavior from different - and diverse - perspectives. The diverse perspectives come from the wide range of focal species studied by chapter authors, a range traditionally quite atypical for comparative psychology, and from the widespread international representation of the authors and the diversity of departments and research centers at which these authors work in. The first part of the Handbook examines historical and foundational principles and theories in the field. The second part focuses on individual behavior systems. The final part of the book is devoted to a diversity of ideas that extend our understanding of behavior into new directions.
The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology is an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and established academics, as well as others who are interested in comparative psychology and animal behavior.
List of contents
Part 1. Foundations
Introduction to Handbook
1. Historical Perspectives on Comparative Psychology and Related Fields
2. Behaviourism: Past and Present
3. On strengths and limitations of field, semi-natural captive, and laboratory study settings
4. Ontogeny of Behavior
5. Sensation, Perception, and Attention
6. Motivation and Emotion
7. Comparative Cognition
8. Cognitive Ecology
Part 2. Behavioral Systems
9. Habitat Selection
10. Where, what and with whom to eat: towards an integrative study of foraging behaviour
11. Causal factors in the study of vigilance
12. Communication
13. Intraspecific Aggression and Social Dominance
14. Mating Behaviour
15. Parental Behaviour
16. Play behavior: a comparative perspective
Part 3. Complexities and Interactions
17. Sociality and Cooperation
18. Cultural Behaviour in Cetaceans
19. Tool Use
20. Bridging the gap between human language and animal vocal communication
21. Reasoning
22. Deception in Animal Communication
23. Evolutionary behavioural ecology perspectives on personality in non-human animals
24. Social Contextual Influences on Behaviour
25. Network approaches to understanding social organization and complexity
26. Changing Ideas About Mating Systems
27. Human mate choice
28. Bridging the gap: human-animal comparisons
About the author
Todd M. Freeberg is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. His research focuses on animal communication: the factors driving signaling complexity and how variation in social groups influences variation in signaling behavior. He is currently the Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology.
Amanda R. Ridley is an Associate Professor of behavioral ecology whose research has primarily focused on cooperative breeding, cognition, and the relationship between the two. She primarily works with wild animals and has established several long-term study sites on avian species – pied babblers and western Australian magpies. Amanda is currently an Editor for Behavioural Ecology.
Patrizia d’Ettorre is Exceptional Class Professor at Sorbonne Paris Nord University, and senior member of Institut Universitaire de France. Using an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating behavioral and evolutionary biology, chemical ecology and neuro-ethology, she has been studying recognition of identity, communication, personality and cognition in social insects. She is Associate Editor of several Frontiers journals.
Summary
The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology is an international reference work that offers scientists and students a balanced overview of current research in the field of comparative psychology and animal behavior.
