Research
Interests: Frank
T. McAndrew,
Ph.D.
Animal Behavior
I
started my career thinking that I
wanted to specialize in the study of animal behavior. I did some
graduate work in zoology at the University of Maine, and I was a
member of the Animal
Behavior
Society for more than 25 years. During my early years as a
faculty
member at Knox College, I taught a course in animal behavior. For
whatever reasons, my interests in studying animals changed to
an interest in the study of evolution in general and humans in
particular. Consequently, I have not done much actual research with
animals although I remain a faithful consumer of such work. I do
not teach my animal behavior course anymore, but I still get to talk
about it quite a bit in my "Evolution and
Human Behavior" course.
I also stay
involved by being a regular member of animal behavior honors thesis
committees in the Knox Biology
Department. My few
publications resulting from work done with animals mostly occurred
early in my
career and they are as follows:
McAndrew,
F. T. (2017, January). Getting Over Rover: Why Our Grief Over a Dog is
so Intense. In Out of the Ooze; Navigating the 21st Century with a
Stone Age Mind. Psychology
Today Magazine. This article also appeared in many other
publications, including The
Conversation, IFL Science, The Houston Chronicle, Alternet,
Associated
Press, San Antonio Express-News, Quartz,
Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, SPAG Magazine, mamamia, The
Observer, The Telegraph, Business Mirror, Business
Insider, &
YourTango.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1989, November). Why apes have eyebrows: Evolution and human
nonverbal communication. Invited colloqium presented at the University of Scranton, Scranton,
Pennsylvania.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1984). Comparative psychology,
ethology, and external validity: Does it always matter if the snark is
a boojum? Comparative
Psychology Newsletter, 4,
1-4.
Hodosh,
R.J., Ringo, J., & McAndrew,
F.T.(1979). Density
and lek displays in Drosophila
grimshawi. Ethology:
International Journal of
Behavioural Biology, 49, 164-172.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1978). Memory disruption in
mice following immersion in cold water. Journal of General Psychology,
99, 151-152.
