Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts
| Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
May 18, 1889 Penza |
| Died |
September 3, 1963 (aged 74) Moscow |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | zoopsychology |
| Institutions | Darwin Museum in Moscow, Institute of Philosophy of the Soviet Academy of Sciences |
Nadezhda Nikolaevna Ladygina-Kohts (Надежда Николаевна Ладыгина-Котс; May 18, 1889 – September 3, 1963) was a Russian zoopsychologist.[1][2] who led a zoopsychology laboratory at Darwin Museum in Moscow.
Biography
She was born in Penza into the family of Alexander Erich Kohts, a local civil servant. In 1913 she created zoopsychology laboratory at the Darwin Museum in Moscow. She graduated from the Women's Higher Courses in 1916. In 1945 she was promoted as a senior research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. She was named an Honored Scientist of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in 1960.
Ladygina-Kohts in her research compared psychology of humans and other primates. Behaviors, intelligence and emotions of young chimpanzees in comparison with human children were her main subject.
Publications
- Ladygina-Kohts, Nadezhda Nikolaevna (2002). Infant chimpanzee and human child: A classic 1935 comparative study of ape emotions and intelligence. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513565-2.
Bibliography
- ↑ van Rosmalen, Lenny; van der Horst, Frank C. P.; van der Veer, René (2011). "An unexpected admirer of Ladygina-Kohts". History of Psychology. 14 (4): 412–415. doi:10.1037/a0025647. ISSN 1939-0610.
- ↑ Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. pp. 732–733. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7.