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  • noun The study of psychology in animals.

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zoo- +‎ psychology

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Examples

  • Neither does it explain the bulk of the facts of the "new zoopsychology."

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • That is, I am convinced from what I have seen myself and read that a foundation of intelligence, of logical reasoning and of self consciousness, must go to constitute in the animal the substratum on which the wonders of the "new zoopsychology" are built up.

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • This it is which constitutes the first discovery, as I have called it, of the "new zoopsychology."

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • To conclude, the supporters of the new zoopsychology must not complain if the views which I have set out above help in course of time to oust their "point of view."

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • And this is perhaps the first and most important discovery in the "new zoopsychology."

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • The hypothesis of a psychic automatism of a mediumistic type, as a concomitant phenomenon, at least, in experiments of the "new zoopsychology," offers us a point of support for a possible interpretation of the strange uncertainty and irregularity of the successes and failures of different observers and different animals.

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • In my view, as soon as the animal subject has been able to understand "numbers" -- and this postulate of the new zoopsychology, I repeat, I believe to be indispensable to the whole edifice -- the animal finds itself sufficiently in harmony with the master to become capable

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • These notions of psychological gestalts were extended to phenomena of zoopsychology and physics by Berlin professor Wolfgang Köhler.

    LaRouche's Latest 2009

  • These notions of psychological gestalts were extended to phenomena of zoopsychology and physics by Berlin professor Wolfgang Köhler.

    LaRouche's Latest 2009

  • These notions of psychological gestalts were extended to phenomena of zoopsychology and physics by Berlin professor Wolfgang Köhler.

    LaRouche's Latest 2009

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