...describe the bonding experience. 10. That is, "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of one which stands lower in the psychological scale." 11. Innate releasing mechanisms are species-specific...

...not to the postulation of different levels of explanation. Morgan's canon suggests that we should not 'interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale' (cited in Rollin, 1989, p. 75). This...

...1852-1936 British psychologist and philosopher i In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal) as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale. An Introduction to Comparative Psychology 1894:53. — » Known as Morgan's canon, the principle...

...who in 1921 laid down a rule for students who were set upon examining racial differences: In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of an inferior psychical faculty if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which...

...Morgan's tl899l position is usually represented by the following widely quoted statement: "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale" tp. 59l. This position has come to be known as Lloyd Morgan's canon: an earlier. more general....

...well during the past century and should not be eschewed in the new. Morgan stated that "in no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale" (Morgan 1906:53). Around the last quarter of the twentieth century more recent practitioners...

...necessary for explaining animal behaviour. Ethologists have referred to "Morgan's principle": "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale" (Morgan 1894: 53). For a long time researchers of animal behaviour also shared the overly high...

...assumptions about an animal's mental state. These ideas were formalized in Morgan's Canon (1894): "In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale." This was espoused and perhaps taken to extremes by behaviorism (see below). The emphasis on...

...attributions to non-human animals. Even Lloyd Morgan, mainly remembered for his canon — "in no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, For samples of this work see Bekoff and Jamieson (199ni, and Ristau (1991i' " Boakes (1984l; Richards...

...known, came in Morgan's book An Introduction to Comparative Psychology, where he writes that In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise...exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale. (Morgan 1894, 53) Morgan himself did not provide a worked-out theory of what he terms the psychological...