Comparative Psychology - Notable Comparative Psychologists

Notable Comparative Psychologists

Noted comparative psychologists, in this broad sense, include:

  • Aristotle
  • Frank Beach
  • F.J.J. Buytendijk
  • Charles Darwin
  • James Mark Baldwin
  • Allen and Beatrix Gardner
  • Harry F. Harlow
  • Donald Hebb
  • Richard Herrnstein
  • L.T. Hobhouse
  • Clark L. Hull
  • Linus Kline
  • Wolfgang Köhler
  • Konrad Lorenz
  • Emil Wolfgang Menzel, Jr.
  • Neal E. Miller
  • C. Lloyd Morgan
  • O. Hobart Mowrer
  • Robert Lockhard
  • Ivan Pavlov
  • Irene Pepperberg
  • George Romanes
  • T. Schjelderup-Ebbe
  • Sara Shettleworth
  • B.F. Skinner
  • Willard Small
  • Edward C. Tolman
  • Edward L. Thorndike
  • Margaret Floy Washburn
  • John B. Watson
  • Wilhelm Wundt

Many of these were active in fields other than animal psychology; this is characteristic of comparative psychologists.

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