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In the Hearts of the Beasts - How American Behavioral Scientists Rediscovered the Emotions of Animals (Hardcover)
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In the Hearts of the Beasts - How American Behavioral Scientists Rediscovered the Emotions of Animals (Hardcover)
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Animals cannot use words to explain whether they feel emotions, and
scientific opinion on the subject has been divided. Charles Darwin
believed animals and humans share a common core of fear, anger, and
affection. Today most researchers agree that animals experience
comfort or pain. Around 1900 in the United States, however, where
intelligence was the dominant interest in the lab and field, animal
emotion began as an accidental question. Organisms ranging from
insects to primates, already used to test learning, displayed
appetites and aversions that pushed psychologists and biologists in
new scientific directions. The Americans were committed
empiricists, and the routine of devising experiments, observing,
and reflecting permitted them to change their minds and encouraged
them to do so. By 1980, the emotional behavior of predatory ants,
fearful rats, curious raccoons, resourceful bats, and shy apes was
part of American science. In this open-ended environment, the
scientists' personal lives-their families, trips abroad, and public
service-also affected their professional labor. The Americans kept
up with the latest intellectual trends in genetics, evolution, and
ethology, and they sometimes pioneered them. But there is a
bottom-up story to be told about the scientific consequences of
animals and humans brought together in the pursuit of knowledge.
The history of the American science of animal emotions reveals the
ability of animals to teach and scientists to learn.
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