Living psychology: animal minds
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Everyday perspectives: animal minds
    • 1.1 How people attribute human-like traits to animals
  • 2 Human ideas about other animals’ minds
  • 3 The evolution of brains and minds
    • 3.1 How brain structures enable mind processes: emotion
    • 3.2 Emotions in different species: humans and dogs
  • 4 From animal to human emotions
    • 4.1 The neurobiology of emotions
    • 4.2 From neurobiology to mental health
  • 5 Comparative cognition: reasoning and problem-solving
    • 5.1 Animal problem-solving: using tools
    • 5.2 Cooperating elephants
    • 5.3 New Caledonian crows
    • 5.4 Collaborative problem-solving: the role of emotions
  • 6 Do animals understand other minds?
    • 6.1 How can researchers test Theory of Mind in animals?
    • 6.2 Animal understanding of human goals and intentions
    • 6.3 Chimpanzees’ understanding of perception and knowledge
    • 6.4 Chimpanzees’ understanding of false belief
  • 7 Thinking about methods: laboratory and natural settings
    • 7.1 Studies on animals’ understanding of ‘seeing’
    • 7.2 Studies on animals’ understanding of false belief: deception
    • 7.3 Behind the scenes of the Dog Cognition Centre
  • Conclusion
  • Images
  • References

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