Anthropological psychology and behavioristic animal experimentation

Adrián Van Kaam

Larry Pacoe

pp. 136-151

in: Waltervon Baeyer, Richard M. Griffith (eds), Conditio humana, Berlin, Springer, 1966

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to make clear how the findings of animal experimentation can be integrated into a comprehensive psychology of human behavior. In other words, we will look at the relevance of animal experimentation from the viewpoint of a comprehensive psychology of man. This does not mean, of course, that we deny that such experiments are relevant in many other important ways, even if they are not a contribution to the understanding of human psychology.