📚 Comparative Psychology

Books with comparative psychology on their catalogue record, first published between 1705 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject comparative psychology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,277 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The expression of emotions in man and animals	Charles Darwin	1872	62
	The Human Zoo	Desmond Morris	1705	57
	The Age of Empathy	Frans de Waal	2009	22
	Philosophie zoologique	Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck	1809	21
	Intimate Behaviour	Desmond Morris	1970	21
	Behavior	John B. Watson	1914	19
	African Genesis	Robert Ardrey	1961	18
	Psychotherapy, East and West	Alan Watts	1961	16
	A text-book of physiology for medical students and physicians	William H. Howell	1905	15
	The territorial imperative	Robert Ardrey	1966	15
	Evolutional ethics and animal psychology	E. P. Evans	1897	14
	Comparative psychology	Mauricio R. Papini	2001	13
	Instinct in man	Ronald Fletcher	1957	11
	Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?	Frans de Waal	2016	11
	The animal mind	Margaret Floy Washburn	1908	10
	An introduction to comparative psychology	C. Lloyd Morgan	1894	9
	Lectures on human and animal psychology	Wilhelm Max Wundt	1894	9
	Einleitung in die vergleichende gehirnphysiologie	Jacques Loeb	1900	9
	Liebe und Hass	Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt	1970	9
	Comparative psychology	Gary Greenberg	1998	9
	A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world	John Gregory	1766	8
	Bitch	Lucy Cooke	2021	8
	Mind in evolution	L. T. Hobhouse	1901	7
	Learning	A. Charles Catania	1979	7
	Nonverbal communication	Ullica Segerstrale	1997	7
	Habit and instinct	C. Lloyd Morgan	1896	6
	Comparative psychology of mental development	Heinz Werner	1948	6
	Instinct and intelligence	S. A. Barnett	1967	6
	Instinct, Environment and Behaviour (Psychology Revivals)	Stephen Lea	2014	6
	On the senses, instincts, and intelligence of animals	Sir John Lubbock	1888	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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