Research Catalog

Title

Motivation of human and animal behavior : an ethological view / [by] Konrad Lorenz [and] Paul Leyhausen. Translated by B.A.

Author

Lorenz, Konrad, 1903-1989.

Publication

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. [1973]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leyhausen, Paul.
• Tonkin, B. A.

Description

xix, 423 pages illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Behavioral science series

Uniform Title

• Antriebe tierischen und menschlichen Verhaltens. English
• Behavioral science series

Alternative Title

Antriebe tierischen und menschlichen Verhaltens.

Subject

• Psychology, Comparative
• Human behavior
• Animal behavior
• Behavior genetics
• Behavior
• Ethology
• Genetics, Behavioral
• Psychology, Comparative
• human behavior
• Human behavior
• Behavior genetics
• Animal behavior
• Comparative psychology

Note

• Translation of Antriebe tierischen und menschlichen Verhaltens.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 387-404.

Contents

Lorenz, K. The comparative study of behavior.--Leyhausen, P. Introduction to the study of impression. The relationship between drive and will in its significance to educational theory. Theoretical considerations in criticism of the concept of the "displacement movement". The discovery of relative coordination: a contribution toward bridging the gap between physiology and psychology. A comparison between territoriality in animals and the need for space in humans. On the choice of a sexual partner by animals. Social organization and density tolerance in mammals. On the function of the relative hierarchy of moods (as exemplified by the phylogenetic and ontogenetic development of prey-catching in carnivores). On the natural history of fear. The biology of expression and impression.--Bibliography (p. 387-404)

ISBN

• 0442248857
• 9780442248857

LCCN

73001460

OCLC

• ocm00572903
• 572903
• SCSB-2054977

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library