Ádám Miklósi

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Ádám Miklósi

Ádám Miklósi (born September 25, 1962 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian behavioral biologist with a focus on the behavior of domestic dogs . He is a full professor of ethology at the ELTE University in Budapest, head of the ethological institute there and of the Family dog ​​project , which deals with research into dog behavior. Ádám Miklósi is a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .

life and work

Miklósi began studying biology at ELTE University in 1981, which he followed in 1986 with a three-year research study at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the field of ethology . There he wrote his dissertation in 1995 on the analysis of the learning of paradise fish . In 1994 the research group changed its focus and gave up research into learning processes in connection with predatory-avoidant behavior of the paradise fish. Together with his friend and colleague József Topál, Miklósi began to develop an observational and experimental background on the interaction between humans and dogs. Based on the strange situation test to describe attachment patterns in children, they carried out studies on the human-dog relationship, the first results of which they presented in the Journal of Comparative Psychology . In 2005 he obtained the Doctor of Science (DSc) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) with the work Representational models of the living environment: An ethological approach , which was followed by the habilitation at the Chair of Biology at the ELTE University. In 2006 he took over the management of the Institute for Ethology at the ELTE University, from 2005 to 2007 and since 2012 he has headed the joint research group on comparative ethology of MTA and ELTE.

Miklósi and his research group (later Family dog ​​project ) were the first to understand human society as the natural habitat of the house dog and to study it in this environment. They raised dogs and wolves under the same conditions in order to be able to study their behavior comparatively. They found in numerous studies that the house dog is adapted to its habitat, human society. Due to the common living space with humans, the dog became an important model organism, among other things for the understanding of human social behavior.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family Dog Project
  2. ↑ Ádám Miklósi on the website of the Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (MTA , the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
    Introducing the newly elected members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on the website of the MTA
  3. ↑ Author page Ádám Miklósi at the Typotex publishing house
  4. ^ J. Topál, A. Miklósi, V. Csányi, A. Dóka: Attachment behavior in dogs (Canis familiaris): a new application of Ainsworth's (1969) Strange Situation Test. In: Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, DC: 1983). Volume 112, Number 3, September 1998, pp. 219-229, ISSN  0735-7036 . PMID 9770312 . ( online ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ))
  5. ↑ John Homans: Why Dogs? The amazing story of man's best friend - a historical, scientific, philosophical and political foray. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-662-43387-4 , p. 83, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-43388-1

Web links

  • Ádám Miklósi CV on the website of the Department of Ethology ( Institute of Biology, Faculty of Science ) of ELTE University
  • Juliane Kaminski: Ádám Miklósi. In: Dogs. 6/2015, p. 35. (Article on the occasion of the presentation of the Dogs Award 2016 - Personality of the Year.)
personal data
SURNAME Miklósi, Ádám
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian behavioral biologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest