[Gutenberg 33936] • Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) / A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology

[Gutenberg 33936] • Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) / A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology
Authors
Pfungst, Oskar
Publisher
Thoemmes Continuum
Tags
animal training , horses , psychology , comparative , animal intelligence
ISBN
9781855066977
Date
2000-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.42 MB
Lang
en
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One of the most famous pieces of systematic research in the history of psychology. Pfungst made careful use of a variety of experimental conditions, including those in which the experimenter was blind to the specific procedures being employed, in order to assess possible effects on animal behaviour of nonverbal cues unwittingly produced by the experimenter.