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Title: | Commentary "A Crisis in Comparative Psychology: Where have all the Undergraduates Gone?" Collaborating with Behavior Analysts Could Avert a Crisis in Comparative Psychology | Contributor(s): | Kyonka, Elizabeth (author) ; Subramaniam, Shrinidhi (author); Bell-Garrison, Daniel (author); Eckard, Matthew L (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01743 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20011 | Abstract: | Abramson's crisis is that, due to lack of interest and opportunities, psychology undergraduates are not pursuing advanced study in comparative psychology at a rate sufficient to sustain it as a discipline. However, what Abramson has not considered is that strictly behavioral comparative research happens frequently in psychology departments under the label "behavior analysis." This work is of high quality, frequently relates animal research to human behavior, and is broadly compatible with comparative cognition in spite of conflicting theoretical attitudes. Fostering communication and collaboration between behavior analysts, comparative cognition researchers, and traditional comparative psychologists is another way to avert the crisis of missing undergraduates in comparative psychology, both by tapping a group of undergraduates with established interests in behavior principles and by widening the base of active researchers in comparative psychology who can serve as potential supervisors to the next generation of comparative psychologists. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Frontiers in Psychology, v.6, p. 1-3 | Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation | Place of Publication: | Switzerland | ISSN: | 1664-1078 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170299 Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified 060801 Animal Behaviour 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 520401 Cognition 310901 Animal behaviour |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280121 Expanding knowledge in psychology | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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