{"pk":4927,"title":"The Comparative Psychology of Leonard T. Hobhouse: Its Context and Conception","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Hobhouse viewed comparative psychology as playing a key role in his politically liberal, social-ethical worldview. The main feature of evolving mind was the increased capacity for democratic self-direction. Political reaction, identified with imperialism, attempts ideologically to obscure this fact, and thus to impede social progress. Its instruments are philosophical idealism and pseudo-scientific biologism or Social Darwinism. Comparative psychology, conceived as an essentially human psychology, could counteract this reactionary ideology with genuine scientific knowledge of present human capacity and future potential. These can only be revealed by a correct scientific approach, which, Hobhouse maintained, had to be evolutionary and comparative.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"International Journal of Comparative Psychology"},{"word":"Behavior"},{"word":"Behaviour"},{"word":"learning"},{"word":"Behavioral Taxonomy"},{"word":"cognition"},{"word":"Cognitive Processes"},{"word":"Conditioning"},{"word":"Comparative Psychology"},{"word":"Hobhouse"},{"word":"Context"},{"word":"Conception"},{"word":"Evolutionary"},{"word":"Comparative"}],"section":"Research Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67k218sc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Charles W.","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tolman","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Victoria","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2009-05-28T17:58:34Z","date_accepted":"2009-05-28T17:58:34Z","date_published":"2012-02-29T22:46:14Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/4927/galley/2814/download/"}]}