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Mirrors and radical behaviorism: Reflections on C. M. Heyes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Gordon G. Gallup
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222

Abstract

Heyes's attempt to reinterpret research on primate cognition from the standpoint of radical behaviorism is strong on dialogue and debate but weak on evidence. Recent evidence concerning self-recognition, for example, shows that her arguments about differential recovery from anesthetization and species differences in face touching as alternative accounts of the behavior of primates in the presence of mirrors) are invalid.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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