Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten)

About this film

LibriVox recording of Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) by Oskar Pfungst. (Translated by Carl Leo Rahn.) Read in English by Jordan Watts Oskar Pfungst book is a detailed piece of investigative journalism looking into Clever Hans, an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic and other intellectual tasks. Pfungst details the results of many experiments, by the end of which he is able to explain exactly how Hans did it. This classic example of the observer-expectancy effect is still relevant today, as the "Clever Hans effect" has to be taken into account whenever a study of animal intelligence takes place. - Summary by Jordan For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (228MB)

Directors & creators

Oskar Pfungst

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;psychology; horses; animal intellegence; animal cognition; animal training; comparative psychology

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