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  1. Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals.Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson & H. Lyn Miles (eds.) - 1997 - SUNY Press.
    This is the first book to evaluate the significance and usefulness of the practices of anthropomorphism and anecdotalism for understanding animals.
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  2. Taking anthropomorphism and anecdotes seriously.Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson & H. Lyn Miles - 1997 - In Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson & H. Lyn Miles (eds.), Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals. SUNY Press. pp. 3--11.
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    The Perils of Confusing Nesting with Chaining in Psychological Explanations.Gillian A. Barker, Patrick G. Derr & Nicholas S. Thompson - 2004 - Behavior and Philosophy 32 (2):293 - 303.
    Despite its diminished importance amongst philosophers, the deductive-nomological framework is still important to contemporary behavioral scientists. Behavioral theorists operating within this framework must be careful to distinguish between nesting and chaining. Explanations are chained when the explanandum sentence of one explanation is one of the antecedent conditions of another. They are nested when one of the antecedent conditions or the explanandum sentence of one explanation is one of the covering laws of another. Confusion between nesting and chaining leads to explanation (...)
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    Abehaviorist account of emotions and feelings: Making sense of James D. Laird's feelings: The perception of self.Eric P. Charles, Michael D. Bybee & Nicholas S. Thompson - 2011 - Behavior and Philosophy 39:1-16.
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    Cached, carried, or crèched.Rosemarie Sokol & Nicholas S. Thompson - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (4):523-523.
    We believe that “caching” a baby would have been too great a danger in human prehistory, and thus could not serve as the context for prelinguistic vocalization. Rather, infants were most likely carried at all times. Thus, the question arises of why the cry of an infant is such a loud vocalization.
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    The Evolutionary Foundation of Perceiving One's Own Emotions.Sarah L. Strout, Rosemarie I. Sokol, James D. Laird & Nicholas S. Thompson - 2004 - Behavior and Philosophy 32 (2):493 - 502.
    Much research in the field of emotions has shown that people differ in the cues that they use to perceive their own emotions. People who are more responsive to personal cues (personal cuers) make use of cues arising from their own bodies and behavior; people who are less responsive to personal cues (situational cuers) make use of cues arising from the world around them. An evolutionary explanation of this well-documented phenomenon is that it occurs because of the operation of a (...)
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    Adaptation for, exaptation as.Nicholas S. Thompson - 2002 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (4):531-532.
    The expression exapted as is offered as a substitute for the target article's exaptation for and exaptation to on the grounds that exapted as is less likely to foster the pernicious intuition that natural selection designs for future consequences.
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    Are some mental states public events?Nicholas S. Thompson - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (4):662-663.
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    Avoiding vicious circularity requires more than a modicum of care.Nicholas S. Thompson - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (3):557-558.
    Any general account of successful selection explanations must specify how they avoid being ad hoc or vacuous, hazards that arise from their recursive form.
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    Babies' cries: Who's listening? Who's being fooled?Nicholas S. Thompson, Carolyn Olson & Brian Dessureau - forthcoming - Social Research: An International Quarterly.
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    Deception and descriptive mentalism.Nicholas S. Thompson - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (2):266-266.
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    Does language arise from a calculus of dominance?Nicholas S. Thompson - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (2):387-387.
    Robin Dunbar's hypothesis that language capacity in response to the demands of maintaining large groups suggests a more specific hypothesis that language arose from a cognitive calculus by which animals could predict their status in complex dominance situations.
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    Evolutionary psychology can ill afford adaptionist and mentalist credulity.Nicholas S. Thompson - 2000 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (6):1013-1014.
    The idea that dreams function as fright-simulations rests on the adaptionist notion that anything that has form has function, and psychological argument relies on the mentalist assumption that dream reports are accurate reports of experienced events. Neither assumption seems adequately supported by the evidence presented. [Revonsuo].
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    High purpose, low execution.Nicholas S. Thompson - 1999 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (5):910-911.
    In reasserting the primacy of the individual in biological analysis, Rose directs attention away from the crucial insights of the developmental/structuralist perspective that he advocates. In presenting his advocacy as a diatribe, he brings disrespect down upon that very tradition.
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    Niche construction and group selection.Nicholas S. Thompson - 2000 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (1):161-162.
    The antipathy toward group selection expressed in the target article is puzzling because Laland et al.'s ideas dovetail neatly with modern group selection theory.
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    Oh no! Not social Darwinism again!.Nicholas S. Thompson - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2):309-309.
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    Reintroducing “reintroducing group selection to the human behavioral sciences”to BBS readers.Nicholas S. Thompson - 1998 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (2):304-305.
    Wilson and Sober's (1994t) revival of group selection theory may have failed with some readers because its simple arithmetic foundation was obscured under the complexities of its presentation. When that uncontrovertible principle is uncovered, it broadens dramatically the fundamental motives that social scientists may impute to human nature and still be consistent with Darwinian evolutionary theory.
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    Shouldn't mother know best?Nicholas S. Thompson, Rosemarie Sokol & Donald H. Owings - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (4):473-474.
    We find the idea that infant crying arises from thermoregulation more consistent with a coregulatory account of its evolutionary history than it is with the informational account advocated in the target article.
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    (1 other version)The intentionality of some ethological terms.Nicholas S. Thompson & Patrick G. Derr - 1993 - Behavior and Philosophy 21 (2):15-24.
    The apparent incompatibility of mental states with physical explanations has long been a concern of philosophers of psychology. This incompatibility is thought to arise from the intentionality of mental states. But, Brentano notwithstanding, intentionality is an ordinary feature of higher order behavior patterns in the classical literature of ethology.
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    Vehicles all the way down?Nicholas S. Thompson - 1994 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (4):638-638.
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    Why Alison Gopnik should be a behaviorist.Nicholas S. Thompson - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (1):83-84.
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    Why would we ever doubt that species are intelligent?Nicholas S. Thompson - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (1):94-94.