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Bateson was interested in psychological processes within societies, but there’s every reason to believe something similar happens between societies as well.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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Ethologists, researchers who study animal behavior in the natural environment, have noticed that among many animal species, behavior often occurs in rigid and mechanical patterns.
Robert B. Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
if you have a dog who is bred to run around in big circles to find prey, or to rummage in the bushes to flush birds, or to pull a sledge etc. they will automatically default to this genetically anchored behaviour in times of stress and high arousal.If
Simone Mueller, Charlotte Garner, Päivi Kokko, Clara Hilsberg, • Walking Together
researchers working in university departments of psychology were in the grip of behaviourism, which discounted innate or genetic factors,
Anthony Stevens • Jung
This meant that by breeding the animals for tameness, Belyaev had actually created a different animal.
Sean Vidal Edgerton • Inside of a Dog -- Young Readers Edition: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
We know that we only project our interpretation on a dog whose behaviour is governed by instincts and not reason.