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The Secret History of Kindness: Learning from How Dogs Learn - Hardcover

Pierson, Melissa Holbrook

 
9780393066197: The Secret History of Kindness: Learning from How Dogs Learn
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393066193 ISBN 13: 9780393066197
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Years back, Melissa Holbrook Pierson brought home a border collie named Mercy, without a clue of how to get her to behave. Stunned after hiring a trainer whose immediate rapport with Mercy seemed magical, Pierson began delving into the techniques of positive reinforcement. She made her way to B. F. Skinner, the behavioral psychologist who started it all, the man who could train a pigeon to dance in minutes and whose research on how behavior is acquired has ramifications for military dolphin trainers, athletes, dancers, and, as he originally conceived, society at large.To learn more, Pierson met with a host of fascinating animal behaviorists, going behind the scenes to witness the relationships between trainers and animals at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, and to the in-depth seminars at a Clicker Expo where all the dogs but hers seemed to be learning new tricks. The often startling story of what became of a pathbreaking scientist s work is interwoven with a more personal tale of how to understand the foreign species with whom we are privileged to live.Pierson draws surprising connections in her exploration of how kindness works to motivate all animals, including the human one.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of The Perfect Vehicle, The Place You Love Is Gone, Dark Horses and Black Beauties, and The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing and The Secret History of Kindness. She lives in Shokan, New York.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393066193
ISBN 13 
9780393066197
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Anzahl der Seiten
311
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