Psychologists who work with children and families tend to avoid mentioning to parents that the treatments they use are often based on research done on animals. Full Story »
Posted by Michael Todd
Interesting article on how animal research can help us be better parents. The authors, academics from Yale University and Boston College, provide detailed examples of how parenting techniques like 'timeouts' are often based on research about the psychology of animals. Informative overview about a little-known topic. My only nitpick is that they do not cite many independent sources in this article, so we have to take their word for it.
The article provides an accessible look at the relation between animal studies of behavior and human behavior. Not especially deep, and quite general.
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