The human self and the animal self: Behavioral problems with few answers. Comments on the papers of Mitchell, Swartz, and Gallup

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 818, Issue , 1997, Pages 284-290

  Thompson, Robert L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SELF CONCEPT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030859894     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48261.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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