Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts

Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts
Born (1889-05-18)May 18, 1889
Penza
Died September 3, 1963(1963-09-03) (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, 1889September 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 promote 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

Bibliography

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
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