Experiments in Animal Psychology

Revealing animal experiments in general psychology texts: opening Pandora's box.

Domjan and Purdy' s (July 1995) article made explicit three facts that teachers of psychology may not know but have long suspected: (a) Authors of general psychology textbooks cite animal experiments without mentioning that animal subjects were used; (b) authors discuss important concepts (e.g., motivation research) without mentioning that the work was based on animal experiments; and (c) autho...

Experiments in Educational Psychology

Social Psychology Experiments

Animal Images in College Psychology Textbooks

This article consists of three interrelated studies analyzing the presentation of animals and animal research in popular introductory college psychology textbooks. The introductory textbook is a good source for discovering the underlying and implicit attitudes about animals, since it plays a major and persuasive role in socializing students in scientific psychology. Psychology textbooks unquest...

Animal Experiments in Medicine Animal houses, breeding of experimental animals