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Evolutionary Psychology, 2009 What do evolutionary psychologists study, which are their most highly cited articles, and which variables predict high citation counts? These are important questions for any emerging science.
Gregory D. Webster +2 more
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Habituation to pain : a motivational-ethological perspective [PDF]
, 2019 Habituation to pain is mainly studied using external pain stimuli in healthy volunteers, often to identify the underlying brain mechanisms, or to investigate problems in habituation in specific forms of pain (eg, migraine).
Crombez, Geert +2 more
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An Outline of a Theory of Play
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Information Research: An International Electronic JournalPaus, Tomáš and Kum, Hye-Chung (eds.). (2024). Digital ethology: human behavior in geospatial context. Cambridge, Mas.: MIT Press. x, 279 p.
Elena Maceviciute
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 Footpad dermatitis (FPD) is an indicator of animal welfare in turkeys, giving evidence of the animals' physical integrity and providing information on husbandry management.
Jenny Stracke +8 more
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Cognitive Relatives and Moral Relations [PDF]
, 2001 The close kinship between humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans is a central theme among participants in the debate about human treatment of the other apes. Empathy is probably the single most important determinant of actual human moral behavior,
Allen, Colin
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Further Observations on the Nesting Behavior of \u3ci\u3eLiris Argentatus\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) [PDF]
, 2017 A three-celled nest of Liris argentatus was excavated and examined in upstate New York. The nest was constructed from the terminus of an abandoned cicada-killer burrow and the cells contained 1-4 incompletely paralyzed Gryllus pennsylvanicus as prey. Two
Kurczewski, Frank E, Spofford, Margery G
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Developmental Autonomous Behavior: An Ethological Perspective to Understanding Machines
IEEE Access, 2023 Developmental autonomous behavior refers to the general ability of a machine to acquire new skills and behavior from its birth to maturity on its own without human intervention.
Satoru Isaka
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