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Reflections on a footnote: implications for the study of emotions in animals1 1 I thank Prof. Nicolas Gérard Chaline, from the Department of Experimental Psychology of the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo, for the French version of the article abstract; Prof. Andrés Eduardo Aguirre Antúnez, from the Department of Clinical Psychology, for the Spanish version; and Prof. Russell David Hamer of the Department of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, for the revision of the abstract in English.

Reflexões a partir de uma nota de rodapé: implicações para o estudo de emoções em animais

Réflexions sur une note de bas de page: implications pour leétude des emotions chez les animaux

Reflexiones a partir de una nota a pie de página: implicaciones para el estudio de las emociones en animales

A footnote (FN) originally submitted as a comment to the article "Parsing Reward" led me to write this essay. The comment was rejected by the editor of a prestigious scientific journal in the area of behavioral neuroscience with the suggestion that it would be more appropriate for an "idle talk". I believe that the core issues involved are important to address explicitly in a debate within the broad domain of the frontiers of human and biological sciences. The protagonists involved in the didactic episode of the FN, whose articles and books I have been reading over the years, are leaders in the field of neuroscience. In this essay the episode is historically contextualized and discussed in terms of potential implications for ethology, psychology and neuroscience.

emotion; animals; ethology; psychology; neuroscience


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