Robert Yerkes
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Mearns Yerkes was an American psychologist, ethologist, eugenicist and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence testing and in the field of comparative psychology. Yerkes was a pioneer in the study both of human and primate intelligence and of the social behavior of gorillas and chimpanzeess. Along with John D. Dodson, Yerkes developed the Yerkes–Dodson law relating arousal to performance.
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Published Works
- The relation of strength of stimulus to rapidity of habit‐formation (1908) (6077)
- Great Apes (365)
- Psychological examining in the United States army. (253)
- Chimpanzees: A Laboratory Colony (1945) (195)
- Mental Development in the Child and the Race (1907) (167)
- Army Mental Tests (140)
- Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, vol xv: Psychological examining in the United States Army. (105)
- The mind of a gorilla (103)
- Concerning memory in the chimpanzee. (88)
- The Dancing Mouse (86)
- A Point Scale for Measuring Mental Ability. (1917) (83)
- FACTORS INFLUENCING THE REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE IN THE CHIMPANZEE; THE PERIOD OF ADOLESCENT STERILITY AND RELATED PROBLEMS (1943) (75)
- The heredity of savageness and wildness in rats. (71)
- The sense of hearing in frogs (1905) (70)
- Social behavior of chimpanzees: dominance between mates, in relation to sexual status. (1940) (69)
- Chimpanzee intelligence and its vocal expressions (65)
- The intelligence of earthworms. (1912) (63)
- Behaviorism and Genetic Psychology (1917) (61)
- Nature and conditions of avoidance (fear) response in chimpanzee. (1936) (57)
- Reproduction in the chimpanzee: Report on forty‐nine births (1943) (56)
- Social Dominance and Sexual Status in the Chimpanzee (1939) (52)
- Animal Psychology and Criteria of the Psychic (1905) (51)
- Genetic Aspects of Grooming, a Socially Important Primate Behavior Pattern (1933) (49)
- The sexual cycle of the chimpanzee (1936) (47)
- Mother-infant relations in chimpanzee. (1935) (43)
- The Life History and Personality of the Chimpanzee (1939) (42)
- Psychology in relation to the war. (1918) (42)
- The Sexual and Reproductive Cycles of Chimpanzee. (1936) (40)
- A study of the behavior of the pig Sus Scrofa by the multiple choice method. (1915) (37)
- Weight norms and relations for chimpanzee (1940) (37)
- PROVISION FOR THE STUDY OF MONKEYS AND APES. (1916) (29)
- Physiology and psychology (1904) (28)
- PRE-LINGUISTIC SIGN BEHAVIOR IN CHIMPANZEE. (1939) (28)
- Variability of reaction-time. (27)
- Weight, growth and age in chimpanzee† (1937) (26)
- THE STUDY OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR. (1914) (25)
- Modifiability of behavior in its relations to the age and sex of the dancing mouse (1909) (24)
- THE CHROMOSOMES OF THE CHIMPANZEE. (1940) (24)
- Concerning Reproduction in the Chimpanzee * (1937) (24)
- A History of Psychology in Autobiography, Vol IV. (1952) (23)
- Chimpanzee Births in Captivity: A Typical Case History and Report of Sixteen Births (1936) (22)
- Do kittens instinctively kill mice (1910) (22)
- A study of the behavior of the crow Corvus Americanus Aud. by the multiple choice method. (1915) (22)
- THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR (1903) (21)
- Contributions to the Study of the Behavior of Lower Organisms (1904) (21)
- Psychology as science and profession. (1942) (20)
- Space perception of tortoises (1904) (20)
- Studies of chimpanzee vision by Ladygin-Kohts. (1925) (18)
- The Binet versus the Point Scale method of measuring intelligence. (1917) (18)
- Testing the human mind. (17)
- A STUDY OF THE REACTIONS AND REACTION TIME OF THE MEDUSA GONIONEMA MURBACHII TO PHOTIC STIMULI (1903) (17)
- REACTION OF ENTOMOSTRACA TO STIMULATION BY LIGHT.—II. REACTIONS OF DAPHNIA AND CYPRIS (1900) (16)
- Suggestibility in chimpanzee. (1934) (16)
- Conjugal contrasts among chimpanzees. (1941) (15)
- The importance of social status as indicated by the results of the Point-Scale method of measuring mental capacity. (15)
- Inhibition and reinforcement of reaction in the frog rana clamitans (1904) (14)
- Man-power and military effectiveness: The case for human engineering. (1941) (14)
- First report of the Subcommittee on Survey and Planning for Psychology. (1942) (14)
- A New Method of Studying the Ideational Behavior of Mentally Defective and Deranged as Compared with Normal Individuals. (13)
- Habit Formation in the Green Crab, Carcinus granulatus. (1902) (13)
- The Association Reaction Method of Mental Diagnosis (Tatbestandsdiagnostik) (13)
- Eugenic bearing of measurements of intelligence. (13)
- Modes of behavioral adaptation in chimpanzee to multiple-choice problems (1934) (11)
- A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE MEDUSA GONIONEMUS MURBACHII. PART I.—THE SENSORY REACTIONS OF GONIONEMUS (1902) (11)
- MULTIPLE BIRTHS IN ANTHROPOID APES. (1934) (11)
- A SECOND-GENERATION CAPTIVE-BORN CHIMPANZEE. (1935) (11)
- Chimpanzee Twins: Behavioral Relations and Development (1935) (11)
- Ideational Behavior of Monkeys and Apes. (1916) (10)
- Preliminaries to a study of color vision in the ring-dove Turtur risorius. (10)
- Maternal instinct in a monkey. (1915) (10)
- Concerning the anthropocentrism of psychology. (1933) (9)
- A Chimpanzee Family (1936) (9)
- Comparative Psychology: A Question of Definitions (1913) (9)
- THE REACTION-TIME OF GONIONEMUS MURBACHII TO ELECTRIC AND PHOTIC STIMULI (8)
- PSYCHOLOGY AND NATIONAL SERVICE. (8)
- The Harvard laboratory of animal psychology and the Franklin field station. (8)
- A Program of Anthropoid Research (1927) (7)
- The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals (1922) (7)
- Notes: The role of the experimenter in comparative psychology. (6)
- SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE ESTIMATION OF TIME. (1905) (6)
- Discussion and report: psychology and national service. (6)
- Bodily Electrical Potential Changes Associated with Ovulation and Early Pregnancy in the Chimpanzee.∗ (1937) (6)
- The discrimination method. (6)
- Infant Ape and Human Child (Instincts, Emotions, Play, Habits) . By N. Kohts. Moscow, 1935, pp. xvi + 596, with 145 plates. (Published in Russian, with English summary.) (1936) (6)
- The Scope of Science. (1947) (6)
- YALE LABORATORIES OF PRIMATE BIOLOGY, INCORPORATED. (1935) (6)
- Color Vision in the Ring-Dove (Tutur risorius). (1915) (6)
- Gorilla Census and Study (1951) (5)
- The class experiment in psychology with advertisements as materials. (5)
- Progress and Peace (1915) (4)
- A point scale for measuring mental ability : 1923 Revision (4)
- How psychology happened into the war. (4)
- Concerning the behaviok of Gonionemus (1906) (4)
- Concerning the genetic relations of types of action (1905) (4)
- A graphic method of recording maze-reactions. (4)
- The dancing mouse; a study in animal behavior, by Robert M. Yerkes. (4)
- A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE MEDUSA GONIONEMA MURBACHII. PART II.—THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (1902) (4)
- Primate Cooperation and Intelligence (1937) (4)
- Mental Examination of Police and Court Cases (1916) (3)
- What psychology contributed to the war. (3)
- Psychology in its Relations to Biology (1910) (3)
- The Movements and Reactions of Fresh-water Planarians: A Study in Animal Behaviour; The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (1903) (3)
- Comparative Physiology of the Brain and Comparative Psychology (1901) (3)
- A New Method of Studying Ideational and Allied Forms of Behavior in Man and Other Animals. (1916) (3)
- The sense of hearing. (2)
- Outline of a study of the self (2)
- Anthropoid Behavior (1927) (2)
- Chimpanzee intelligence and its vocal expressions, by Robert M. Yerkes and Blanche W. Learned. (2)
- Early days of comparative psychology. (1943) (2)
- THE RELATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY TO MEDICINE. (1921) (2)
- The sense of sight: Brightness vision. (2)
- Recent Progress and Present Tendencies in Comparative Psychology. (2)
- Psychological Work of the National Research Council (1923) (2)
- A Point Scale for the Measurement of Intelligence in Adolescent and Adult Individuals (1917) (2)
- A society of animal psychology. (2)
- Committee on International Planning. (1946) (2)
- The Importance of Social Status as Indicated by the Results of the Point Scale Method of Measuring Mental Capacity (1916) (2)
- PSYCHOLOGY AND NATIONAL SERVICE (1917) (1)
- The comparative psychopathology of infrahuman primates. (1)
- Making the tests. (1)
- Walter Bradford Cannon, 1871-1945. (1946) (1)
- The new world of science; its development during the war, ed. by Robert M. Yerkes ... (1)
- Report of the Psychology committee of the National research council, presented for the Committee by Robert M. Yerkes, chairman ... (1)
- Intelligence of the negro. (1)
- Mind in Nature (1903) (1)
- Effect of doubling the time limits in the alpha and beta examinations. (1)
- Discussion. Reaction-time and variability: A criticism. (1)
- Intelligence ratings of occupational groups. (1)
- Methods of expressing results of measurements of intelligence: Coefficient of intelligence. (1916) (1)
- Fog and Smoke (1905) (1)
- Measuring the Mental Strength of an Army. (1918) (1)
- How May We Discover the Children Who Need Special Care (1917) (1)
- THE USE OF ROMAN NUMERALS. (1904) (1)
- Comparative Psychology in Relation to Medicine (1913) (1)
- Habit and its relations to the nervous system in the earthworm (1912) (0)
- Synthesis: The building of complex experiences. (0)
- Psychology in world reconstruction. (1946) (0)
- Relation of intelligence ratings to age. (0)
- The duration of habits: Memory and re-learning. (0)
- Data obtained through more extensive camp trial of examination beta and resulting modifications. (0)
- Stimuli, bodily processes, and sensations. (0)
- The efficiency of training methods. (0)
- The examiner's guide for psychological examining in the Army—Directions for giving the Army mental tests. (0)
- The aims, tasks, or problems of psychology. (0)
- Army mental tests : published with the authorization of the War Department (0)
- Education and mental life. (0)
- Intelligence ratings by states. (0)
- Hobhouse's mind in evolution. (0)
- Officers' training camps and noncommissioned officers' schools. (0)
- Laws of affection. (0)
- Norms for age, sex, linguistic, and social status. (0)
- Brehm's natural history of animals. (0)
- Behavior and consciousness. (0)
- Camp differences in intelligence ratings. (0)
- Sensations as elements of consciousness. (0)
- Laws of attention. (0)
- Wheeler on ants. (0)
- The sense of sight: Color vision (continued). (0)
- The sensations of sight and hearing. (0)
- The Revised Point Scale: Materials and directions for using. (0)
- Relation of intelligence ratings to length of residence in United States. (0)
- Characteristics, origin, and history. (0)
- Distribution of scores on the tests in examinations alpha and beta. (0)
- Books on Social Biology@@@Evolution Genetics and Eugenics.@@@Heredity.@@@Genetic Studies of Genius.@@@Why Children Succeed.@@@Medical Heredity.@@@The Pedigree of the Human Race.@@@Almost Human.@@@Chimpanzee Intelligence and Its Vocal Expressions.@@@Rassenkunde Europas. (1926) (0)
- Performance in intelligence examinations as related to officers' estimates of intelligence. (0)
- Creating a Chimpanzee Community ** (1963) (0)
- Intelligence of the draft in relation to fitness for military service. (0)
- Analysis and the problem of psychological elements. (0)
- Individual, age, and sex differences in behavior. (0)
- Summary of data concerning groups examined. (0)
- Methods of segregation. (0)
- Plan for a history of psychological services in the war. (1945) (0)
- Data from colleges and the Students' Army Training Corps. (0)
- The Behavior of "Roger" (1908) (0)
- Comparison of forms of examination alpha. (0)
- Behavior: Equilibration and dizziness. (0)
- The subject-matter, branches, and relations of psychology. (0)
- Psychic complexes: Perception. (0)
- The prediction and control of events. (0)
- Bodily and mental processes: Correlation. (0)
- Eugenics and mental life. (0)
- Relation of intelligence ratings to nativity. (0)
- Provision of materials for psychological examining. (0)
- The Personality of Mary Richmond (1929) (0)
- Unofficial trial of methods. (0)
- Proposals for a universal point scale. (0)
- Official military trial of psychological examining. (0)
- Conditions of examining and procedures adopted during the initial experiment. (0)
- Physical and psychical explanation. (0)
- Observations, generalizations, laws, and principles. (0)
- Natural Science and Psychology (1904) (0)
- The Use of Roman Numerals (1904) (0)
- Preofficial period of preparation for national service. (0)
- Affections as elements of consciousness. (0)
- The methods of psychology. (0)
- Relation of rating to arm of the services. (0)
- The significance of sociological and racial status. (0)
- Instinct and Experience (1913) (0)
- Peculiarities of other modes of sensation. (0)
- The history of consciousness in the race: Phylogenesis. (0)
- Letter from Robert M. Yerkes to Alfred C. Kinsey (1947) (0)
- Psychic complexes: Memory and imagination. (0)
- Army tests in the students' Army Training Corps and colleges. (0)
- Review of Studies in animal behavior. (0)
- Psychic complexes: Feelings. (0)
- The inheritance of forms of behavior. (0)
- Symposium on Recent Advances in Psychology (1942) (0)
- Laws of association and memory. (0)
- The Evolution of Animal Intelligence. (0)
- Habit formation: The labyrinth habit. (0)
- Methods and results. (0)
- Revision of methods of individual examination. (0)
- Work of the committee at Vineland, N. J. (0)
- The sense of sight: Color vision. (0)
- Measurement of the pupils of city schools. (0)
- The explanation of mental phenomena: Psychical causation. (0)
- Statistics on education and its relation to intelligence examinations. (0)
- Relation of rank to intelligence. (0)
- Period of extension of examining. (0)
- Performance in intelligence examinations as related to military efficiency. (0)
- The natural history of birds. (0)
- The limits of applicability of the scale: Child and adult. (0)
- SCIENCE AND COMMUNITY TRUSTS. (1921) (0)
- LABORATORY CHIMPANZEES. (1940) (0)
- The sense of sight: Brightness vision (continued). (0)
- GRANTS IN SUPPORT OF RESEARCH. (1923) (0)
- The plan, purpose, and use of this text-book. (0)
- The properties of sensations. (0)
- Physical conditions, bodily processes, and affections. (0)
- Educability: Methods of learning. (0)
- Revision of group examination a. (0)
- Reliability of results: Comparison with Binet-Simon data. (0)
- A general method of statistical interpretation of the principal sample. (0)
- Acceptance of methods by the War Department and early modifications resulting from official use. (0)
- Measured electrical stimuli in the study of behavior. (0)
- Laws of sensation and perception. (0)
- Concrete experiences, or varieties of consciousness. (0)
- The role of sight in the daily life of the dancer. (0)
- The assignment of letter ratings. (0)
- Habit formation: The discrimination method. (0)
- The values and ideals of psychology. (0)
- Sampling of intelligence records and mode of analysis. (0)
- Behavior: Dance movements. (0)
- The history of consciousness in the individual: Ontogenesis. (0)
- Analysis of results as a basis for revision. (0)
- Army test record blanks and forms. (0)
- Structural peculiarities and behavior. (0)
- Book Review:The Hill Folk: Report on a Rural Community of Hereditary Defectives. Florence H. Danielson, Charles B. Davenport (1913) (0)
- The Information Service of the National Research Council (1922) (0)
- Feeding, breeding, and development of the young. (0)
- The relation of plasticity to sex and age in the dancing mouse (1908) (0)
- The senses and intelligence of the Chinese dancing mouse (1906) (0)
- Book Review:Heredity in Relation to Eugenics. Charles Benedict Davenport (1912) (0)
- Outline of a study of the self, by Robert M. Yerkes ... and Daniel W. La Rue. (0)
- The American Society of Naturalists (1959) (0)
- Heliotropism of Cypridopsis (1900) (0)
- Development of a substitute group test for illiterates and foreigners. (0)
- The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals . By William T. Hornaday, Sc.D., A.M. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Pp. x + 328. (1922) (0)
- Additional statistics on examination a. (0)
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