ABSTRACT
Psychological phenomena and disorders have been modeled in animals for over a century, and the studies of, for example, Ivan Pavlov and Burrhus Frederic Skinner have been crucial to our understanding of both basic psychological processes and psychopathology. A cursory examination of the index of almost any standard introductory text in psychology reveals how in–uential animal research and animal modeling has been for the development of the discipline. In more recent texts, authors have often chosen to omit the fact that major research —ndings are based on animal research, which belittles its contribution. One might surmise that this is either to avoid upsetting the student, out of ignorance, or out of political correctness. In fact, many clinical practitioners today appear to be unaware of the origins of the very methodologies that they commonly use in treating patients (Plous 1996).
