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The Mothers Were Rats
To the editor: It was more than a little surprising to read Wray Herbert’s review of Sharon Begley’s book, Train Your Mind Change Your Brain, in the APS Observer (March, 2007, p. 15) claiming that
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Tales of an Entrepreneurial Animal Psychologist
At an earlier stage of my academic career, a college dean asked me to reevaluate a scholar who initially had been denied tenure. The scientist in question had published in highly regarded journals, was known
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No Monkey, No Cry
Those who know her best describe Sylvia as closed off and even “disdainful.” So it was a shock that the 23-year-old baboon turned to her companions for support when her daughter and best grooming partner
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Putting Psychology Out to Pasture
Later this month the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association’s annual School for Successful Ranching will include a session on “Cow Sense — Understanding Bovine Psychology.” Fourth-generation rancher and career cowboy Joel Ham of Big
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Observations
Stanford’s Annual Conference The fifth annual Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Conference, sponsored by the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Association and the Stanford chapter of Psi Chi, was held on May 7, 2005. Initiated in 2001, SUPC has
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Non-Human Nature
By Duane M. Rumbaugh and David A. Washburn Yale University Press, 2003 Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings By Duane M. Rumbaugh and David A. Washburn Yale University Press, 2003 Intelligence, creativity, and complex
