Nadezhda Nikolaevna Ladygina-Kohts
Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts ( Russian Надежда Николаевна Ладыгина-Котс , Nadezhda Nikolayevna Lady Gina Kots , nor Nadia Kohts and Nadezhda Lady Gina Kohts ; born May 6, jul. / 18th May 1889 greg. In Penza , † 3. September 1963 in Moscow ) was a Russian psychologist and behavioral scientist . She became known for being one of the first to conduct scientific research on primates, especially on chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) and rhesus monkeys ( Macaca mulatta ).
biography
Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts was the wife of Alexander Erich Kohts , who founded the State Darwin Museum in Moscow in 1907 . Ladygina-Kohts began there with various psychophysical behavioral studies on primates in order to test their perception of shapes and colors. She was also the first to make experiments with so-called "monkey pictures" by having the animals made with various painting utensils. As a result, she performed important basic work on the cognitive understanding of primates, which was taken up again in later years through further experiments by the well-known primatologists Robert Yerkes and Desmond Morris and successfully continued with various other species of monkeys (including orangutans ). Ladygina-Kohts was also the first scientist to observe and describe an empathic behavioral reaction in a primate . Her experimental animal was the hand-raised chimpanzee "Yoni" ( Sanskrit , f., योनि, yoni, literally: origin).
Publications
- NN Ladygina-Kohts: Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child A Classic, Comparative Study of Ape Emotions and Intelligence. (1935), Edited by Frans de Waal , Oxford University Press, New York 2002, ISBN 0-19-513565-2 .
literature
- Frans BM de Waal: A century of getting to know the chimpanzee. In: Nature . Vol. 437, pp. 56–59, doi: 10.1038 / nature03999 (with short biography and photo).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ biography at penza-trv.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Frans de Waal: The monkey and the sushi master. Hanser, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-446-20238-2
- ↑ Frans de Waal: The monkey in us. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-34559-0 .
- ↑ J. Valsiner, R. van der Veer: The social mind. Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-521-58973-8 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ladygina-Kohts, Nadeschda Nikolajewna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ладыгина-Котс, Надежда Николаевна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian psychologist and behavioral scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Penza |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd September 1963 |
| Place of death | Moscow |