Researchers argue that cognitive studies in comparative psychology often wrongly take an anthropocentric approach, resulting in an over-valuation of human-like abilities and the assumption that ...

Comparative psychology examines the cognitive, emotional, and social behaviours of different species, offering insights into the evolutionary and developmental processes that shape psychological ...

"In How to Study Animal Minds, I argue that we should presume animals of all species are conscious, and design experiments from that perspective. By altering our starting assumptions we can radically ...

I started this blog a little over a year ago as a way of exploring the intersection of animal behavior research and human psychology. Research on animal behavior provides a lot of insights for ...

Margaret Floy Washburn overcame barriers in the male-dominated field of psychology. Learn how she established herself as the founding mother of comparative psychology. Around the turn of the twentieth ...

Comparative psychology, taken in its most usual, broad sense, refers to the study of the behavior and mental life of animals other than human beings. It is synonymous with animal psychology, but ...

Like a proud cat leaving a bird on its owner's doorstep, orcas—also called killer whales—may sometimes offer to share their prey with humans, according to research published in the Journal of ...

Just as humans have their own individual personalities, new research in the Journal of Comparative Psychology shows that elephants have personalities, too. Moreover, an elephant's personality may play ...

The Journal of Comparative Psychology publishes original empirical and theoretical research from a comparative perspective on the behavior, cognition, perception, and social relationships of diverse ...