Chapter Summary<\/summary>\nThis chapter reconsiders the role of animals in the development of psychological science through the critical lens of Donna Haraway\u2019s concept of companion species. Moving beyond the view of animals as passive tools or experimental objects, the chapter argues that animals have consistently shaped psychological knowledge as active participants, resisting, adapting, and interacting in ways that challenge traditional models of objectivity and control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through a re-examination of iconic experiments, including Pavlov\u2019s dogs, Harlow\u2019s monkeys, K\u00f6hler\u2019s apes, and Skinner\u2019s pigeons, the chapter demonstrates how animals\u2019 individual behaviours often disrupted the assumptions of behavioural psychology. Historical shifts are traced from anecdotal approaches to standardised experiments, culminating in contemporary insights from thinkers such as Peter Godfrey-Smith. The chapter introduces key epistemological and ontological issues concerning the role of animals in psychological research. It examines how knowledge is produced with animals and explores the assumptions psychological methods make about what kinds of beings animals are. These concerns are situated within broader debates about power, ethics, and replicability. The chapter concludes by arguing that taking animals seriously, as companions in knowledge production, is ethically essential and methodologically and conceptually transformative. It encourages students to engage in critical, reflective, and ethically grounded thinking about the future of psychological science.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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