First published in 1951, The Study of Instinct is widely considered the foundational text of
ethology, the study of natural behavior. Written to introduce the largely German literature of …

With an introduction by Karl S. Lashley and a preface by Nicholas Tinbergen, this book
presents translations of 8 papers that have had but limited direct accessibility to American …

The concept of instinct is given a brief historical discussion with the goal of determining why
it has shown so much vitality without an objective test for at least two millennia. The last part …

BE EGINNING about 1931, Konrad Lorenz, with his students and collaborators (notably N.
Tinbergen), has published numerous behavioral and theoretical papers on problems of …

As long as workers on instinct focused their attention on to the fact that instinctive behaviour
as a whole is often highly variable and plastic, while the only constant aspect was …

Primitive man believed that the Divinity endowed animals with powers enabling them to act.
As a matter of method, all such notions of instinct should be abandoned, especially since …

An examination of findings in comparative psychology leads the writer to maintain that"
instinctual experience and behaviour is discernible and is of the utmost importance in the …

INSTINCT IN MODERN PSYCHOLOGY Although the theory of instincts is as old as the
history of psychology, it is only recently that they have been applied so universally in nearly …

Although instincts were banished from psychology, the anti-instinct movement was only a
logical objection against the postulations of imaginary forces in behavior. A survey of the …

Traces the historical background of the field of behavioral studies from the 17th-century
works of Rene Descartes to the present. An overview of the book is included, stressing …