Book Review: The Animal Mind

Frontiers in Psychology

Alain Morin¹ 

关键词: mind;    animals;    self;    self-awareness;    thinking;    feeling;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02030

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

TIME published a special edition on The Animal Mind (Kluger, 2017) that caught our attention, not as a result of the cute doggy face on its cover, but because of the subtitle “How they think, how they feel, how to understand them.” Unfortunately, given several problems with the edition, some of which are discussed below, none of these intriguing questions are truly answered. The book (more accurately: magazine or booklet, with only 96 pages) contains eight sections on multiple aspects of animals' overt and covert behavior—obviously including the animal mind (cognition, self-awareness, creativity), as well as group behavior (life in animal society), animals' skills at manipulating their environment (e.g., building nests), and themselves (e.g., camouflage) to survive, relationships (friendship, bonding), mourning (grief, sorrow), non-verbal communication and language use, mental illness (depression, obsessive-compulsive behavior), animal' rights, and our interactions with animals.

【 授权许可】

CC BY