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| Animal studies: Animal studies in psychology involve research using animals to explore and understand behavior, cognition, and neurobiology in controlled settings. While controversial for ethical reasons, animal studies provide data that contribute to our understanding of both human and animal behavior, often informing therapeutic interventions and treatments. See also Animal models, Experiments, Method, Predictions, Generalization._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Samuel D. Gosling on Animal Studies - Dictionary of Arguments
Corr I 279 Animal studies/behavior/ethology/Gosling: Animal studies afford four major benefits over human research. (1) animal studies allow greater experimental control and facilitate more extensive experimental manipulations than is possible in studies of humans. (2) observations of animals can be made in far greater detail and for more extensive periods than is possible for humans. (3) the accelerated life history of many species means that longitudinal studies can be conducted in substantially shorter periods than possible with humans. (4) for many species it is possible to obtain detailed quantitative and molecular genetic information and to conduct transgenic, knock-out and cloning studies (Gosling and Mollaghan 2006(1)). Ultimately animal studies can be used to test specific hypotheses that, with humans, must often rely on sub-optimal designs. To illustrate, consider John Capitanio’s research programme, which for over a decade has been accruing personality data on over 175 rhesus monkeys (see Weinstein, Capitanio and Gosling 2008(2), for description of this research programme). >Animal models. 1. Gosling, S. D. and Mollaghan, D. M. 2006. Animal research in social psychology: a bridge to functional genomics and other unique research opportunities, in P. A. M. van Lange (ed.), Bridging social psychology: benefits of transdisciplinary approaches, pp.123-8, Mahne NJ: Erlbaum 2. Weinstein, T. A. R., Capitanio, J. P. and Gosling, S. D. 2008. Personality in animals, in O. P. John, R. W. Robins and L. A. Pervin (eds.), Handbook of personality theory and research, pp. 328–48. New York: Guilford Press Samuel D. Gosling and B. Austin Harley, „Animal models of personality and cross-species comparisons“, in: Corr, Ph. J. & Matthews, G. (eds.)2009. The Cambridge handbook of Personality Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gosling, Samuel D. Corr I Philip J. Corr Gerald Matthews The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology New York 2009 Corr II Philip J. Corr (Ed.) Personality and Individual Differences - Revisiting the classical studies Singapore, Washington DC, Melbourne 2018 |
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