Feral Children and Clever Animals: Reflections on Human Nature - Brossura

Candland, Douglas K.

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ISBN 10: 0195102843 ISBN 13: 9780195102840

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 1996

Riassunto

What is it that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom? What makes us unique? What makes us human?

In this provocative book, Douglas Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans `think', we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature.

Among the fascinating accounts of feral children and clever animals from which the book draws its arguments are the Wolf Girls of India, Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, Kaspar Hauser, and `Clever Hans', the German horse that could calculate square roots.

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Recensione:

... an eye-opening history of psychology... (Nature)

... provides an enlightening analysis of language, intelligence, and learning... Scholarly and sensitive, this is absorbing reading. (Booklist)

Original and entertaining. (Kirkus Reviews)

L'autore:

Douglas Keith Candland is Professor of Psychology and Animal Behavior at Bucknell University. He has written for publications as diverse as The New Yorker and American Psychologist, and is the author of Psychology: The Experimental Approach (Second Edition, 1978), Emotion (1977), and Psychology (1962).

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• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0195102843
• ISBN 13: 9780195102840
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432