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66
Citations
13543
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1716
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626

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1983 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1976 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Gordon M. Burghardt is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research mainly focuses on Psychology, with a particular emphasis on Social Psychology, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and studies involving Small Animals and broader Ecology.

The research topics cover several key areas related to animal and human behavior, including:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Primate behavior and ecology
  • Human-animal interaction studies
  • Animal behavior and welfare studies
  • Animal behavior and reproduction
  • Wildlife ecology and conservation
  • Animal vocal communication and behavior

Recent publications authored by them include:

  • Insights found in century-old writings on animal behaviour and some cautions for today, 2020, Animal Behaviour
  • Animal play and evolution: Seven timely research issues about enigmatic phenomena, 2024, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Chemically mediated self-recognition in sibling juvenile common gartersnakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) reared on same or different diets: evidence for a chemical mirror?, 2021, Behaviour

Other notable publications in the field where Gordon M. Burghardt is not the first author but relevant include:

  • Comparing the ontogeny, neurobiology, and function of social play in hamsters and rats, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • A review of interspecific social play among nonhuman animals, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, with whom multiple papers have been published. These co-authors include:

  • Adam M. Partin (4 publications)
  • Elisabetta Palagi (3 publications)
  • Cary M. Springer (3 publications)
  • Matthew A. Cooper (2 publications)
  • Conner J. Whitten (2 publications)

Publications by this researcher are often featured in several academic journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (4 publications)
  • International Journal of Play (3 publications)
  • Diversity (2 publications)
  • Animals (2 publications)
  • Animal Sentience (2 publications)

Over the course of their career, Gordon M. Burghardt has been recognized with several fellowships including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1996
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 1983
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1976

Best Publications

  • The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits

    Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Chemical Perception in Reptiles

    Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Animal awareness: Current perceptions and historical perspective.

    Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Current Perspectives on the Biological Study of Play: Signs of Progress

    Kerrie Lewis Graham;Gordon M. Burghardt

  • A comparative analysis of scoring methods for chemical discrimination of prey by squamate reptiles.

    William E. Cooper;Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Environmental enrichment and cognitive complexity in reptiles and amphibians: Concepts, review, and implications for captive populations

    Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Rough-and-tumble play as a window on animal communication

    Elisabetta Palagi;Gordon M. Burghardt;Barbara Smuts;Giada Cordoni

  • Cognitive Ethology and Critical Anthropomorphism: A Snake with Two Heads and Hog-Nose Snakes That Play Dead

    Gordon M. Burghardt

  • The Development of Behavior: Comparative and Evolutionary Aspects

    Gordon Burghardt;M. Bekoff

  • Behavior and phylogeny: constriction in ancient and modern snakes

    Harry W. Greene;Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Chemical-cue preferences of inexperienced snakes: comparative aspects.

    Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Synthetic ethology and the evolution of cooperative communication

    Bruce J. MacLennan;Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Breaking the Social–Non‐social Dichotomy: A Role for Reptiles in Vertebrate Social Behavior Research?

    J. Sean Doody;Gordon M. Burghardt;Vladimir Dinets

  • Instinct and innate behavior: Toward an ethological psychology.

    Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Comparative Prey-Attack Studies in Newborn Snakes of the Genus Thamnophis

    Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Food Imprinting in the Snapping Turtle, Chelydra serpentina

    Gordon M. Burghardt;Eckhard H. Hess

  • Attitudes Toward Animals: Origins and Diversity

    Harold A. Herzog;Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Behavioral and Stimulus Correlates of Vomeronasal Functioning in Reptiles: Feeding, Grouping, Sex, and Tongue Use

    Gordon M. Burghardt

  • The Genesis of Animal Play

    Gordon Burghardt

  • Beyond Conspecifics: Is Brer Rabbit Our Brother?

    Gordon M. Burghardt;Harold A. Herzog

  • The evolutionary origins of play revisited: lessons from turtles

    Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Dietary sequestration of defensive steroids in nuchal glands of the Asian snake Rhabdophis tigrinus

    Deborah A. Hutchinson;Akira Mori;Alan H. Savitzky;Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Sequestered defensive toxins in tetrapod vertebrates: principles, patterns, and prospects for future studies

    Alan H. Savitzky;Akira Mori;Deborah A. Hutchinson;Ralph A. Saporito

  • Vomerolfaction and vomodor.

    William E. Cooper;Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Foundations of comparative ethology

    Gordon M. Burghardt

  • Iguanas of the World. Their Behavior, Ecology and Conservation

    Eric R. Pianka;G. M. Burghardt;A. S. Rand

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold A. Herzog
Harold A. Herzog Western Carolina University
Jerrold Meinwald
Jerrold Meinwald Cornell University
Frank C. Schroeder
Frank C. Schroeder Boyce Thompson Institute
Sergio M. Pellis
Sergio M. Pellis University of Lethbridge
Indrikis Krams
Indrikis Krams University of Latvia
A. Stanley Rand
A. Stanley Rand Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Harry W. Greene
Harry W. Greene Cornell University
William E. Cooper
William E. Cooper Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne
Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick
Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Gary F. McCracken
Gary F. McCracken University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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