Historical Approaches to Animal Psychology
Darwin, C. (1897). The Decent of Man. Retrieved from: http://darwin-online.org.uk/contents.html#descent. [pp 104-106; 185-199].
Kalof, L., &; Fitzgerald, A. (Eds.). (2007). The Animals Reader. [Chapters 1 (Aristotle), and 9 (Descartes)]. New York: Berg.
Newmeyer, S. T. (2010). Animals in Greek and Roman Thought: A Sourcebook. [Ch 7. Plutarch]. New York: Routledge.
The Development of Comparative/Animal Psychology
Beach, F. A. (1950). The snark was a boojum. American Psychologist, 5, 115-124.
Dewsbury, D. A. (2000). Issues in comparative psychology at the dawn of the 20th century. American Psychologist, 55 (7), 750-753. DOI: 10.1037//0003-066X.55.7.750
Current Approaches to the Study of Animal Psychology
Shettleworth, S.J. (2009). The evolution of comparative cognition: is the snark still a boojum? Behavioral Processes, 80(3), 210-7. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.09.001.
Boesch, C. (2007). What makes us human (Homo sapiens)? The challenge of cognitive cross-species comparisons. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 121(3), 227-240.
Anthropomorphism and Anecdotes
de Waal, F. B. M. (1997). Are we in anthropo-denial? Discover, 18(7), 50-53.
Mitchell, R. W. (1997). Anthropomorphism and anecdotes: a guide for the perplexed. In R. W. Mitchell, N. S. Thompson, & H. L. Miles, Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes and Animals (pp. 407-427). New York: State University of New York Press.
Wynne, C. D. L. (2007). What are animals? Why anthropomorphism is still not a scientific approach to behavior. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 2, 125-135.
The American mindset regarding the welfare of animals (a bit of history)
Dawkins, M. S. (1985). The scientific basis for assessing suffering in animals. In P. Singer (Ed.), In Defense of Animals (pp. 27-40). New York: Basil Blackwell.
Lubinski, J. (2004). Introduction to animal rights (2nd Ed.). Retrieved from: http://www.animallaw.info/articles/ddusjlubinski2002.htm
Birke, L. (2007). Into the laboratory. In L. Kalof & A. Fitzgerald (Eds.), The Animals Reader (pp. 323-335). New York: Berg. The Animal Welfare Center: http://awic.nal.usda.gov/
American Anti-Vivisection Society: http://www.aavs.org/site/c.bkLTKfOSLhK6E/b.6353579/k.BFAF/Home.htm Humane Society of the United States: http://www.humanesociety.org/
The Role of Zoos
Jamieson, D. (1985). Against zoos. In P. Singer (Ed.), In Defense of Animals (pp. 108-117). New York: Basil Blackwell.
Reading, R. P., & Miller, B. J. (2007). Attitudes and attitude change among zoo visitors. In A. Zimmerman, M. Hatchwell, L. A. Dickie, & C. West, Zoos in the 21st Century: Catalysts for Conservation? (pp. 63-89). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Animals in Entertainment (see also Videos section above)
Schroepfer, K.K., Rosati, A.G., Chartrand, T., & Hare, B. (2011). Use of “entertainment” chimpanzees in commercials distorts public perception regarding their conservation status. PLoS ONE 6(10): e26048. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026048
Case studies – dog fighting, chimpanzees in research
Dog fighting – NPR story – http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113158123
Evans, R., Gauthier, D. K., & Forsyth, C. J. (1998). Dogfighting: symbolic expression and validation of masculinity. Sex Roles, 39(11/12), 825-838. Chimpanzee research – http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/nih-chimp-fate/
Pets
Knight, S., & Herzog, H. (2009). All creatures great and small: new perspectives on psychology and human-animal interactions. Journal of Social Issues, 65(3), 451-461.
Melson, G. F. (2001). Why the Wild Things Are: Animals in the Lives of Children. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pampered Pets (an ABC newscast) – http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/pet-pampering-extremes-15884753
