Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology

The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology is an international reference work that offers scientists and students a balanced overview of current research in the field of comparative psychology and animal behavior.

The book takes an integrative approach to animal behavior, with most of the chapters discussing research involving both proximate (developmental and mechanistic) and ultimate (functional and phylogenetic) levels of analysis. Chapters cover the major ideas of core topics in the field and examine emerging research trends to provide readers deeper understanding of these ideas. One of the strengths of this book is its the coverage of core topics in comparative psychology and animal behavior from different - and diverse - perspectives. The diverse perspectives come from the wide range of focal species studied by chapter authors, a range traditionally quite atypical for comparative psychology, and from the widespread international representation of the authors and the diversity of departments and research centers at which these authors work in. The first part of the Handbook examines historical and foundational principles and theories in the field. The second part focuses on individual behavior systems. The final part of the book is devoted to a diversity of ideas that extend our understanding of behavior into new directions.

The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology is an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and established academics, as well as others who are interested in comparative psychology and animal behavior.

Todd M. Freeberg is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. His research focuses on animal communication: the factors driving signaling complexity and how variation in social groups influences variation in signaling behavior. He is currently the Associate Editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology.

Amanda R. Ridley is an Associate Professor of behavioral ecology whose research has primarily focused on cooperative breeding, cognition, and the relationship between the two. She primarily works with wild animals and has established several long-term study sites on avian species - pied babblers and western Australian magpies. Amanda is currently an Editor for Behavioural Ecology.

Patrizia d'Ettorre is Exceptional Class Professor at Sorbonne Paris Nord University, and senior member of Institut Universitaire de France. Using an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating behavioral and evolutionary biology, chemical ecology and neuro-ethology, she has been studying recognition of identity, communication, personality and cognition in social insects. She is Associate Editor of several Frontiers journals.