Motivation of human and animal behavior
Subtitle: an ethological view
By: [by] Konrad Lorenz [and] Paul Leyhausen. Translated by B. A. Tonkin.
Contributors: Leyhausen, Paul.
Series: Behavioral science series
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Psychology, Comparative; Psychology, Comparative
Notes: Translation of Antriebe tierischen und menschlichen Verhaltens.
Table of contents: title: Lorenz, K. The comparative study of behavior.; title: 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.; title: Bibliography (p. 387-404)