Nationality Russian Fields zoopsychology | Name Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts Institution State Darwin Museum | |
Born May 18, 1889Penza ( 1889-05-18 ) Died September 3, 1963, Moscow, Russia Books Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child: A Classic 1935 Comparative Study of Ape Emotions and Intelligence | ||
Nadezhda Nikolaevna Ladygina-Kohts (Надежда Николаевна Ладыгина-Котс; (1889-05-18)May 18, 1889 – (1963-09-03)September 3, 1963) was a Russian zoopsychologist. who led a zoopsychology laboratory at Darwin Museum in Moscow.
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She was born in Penza into the family of Alexander Erich Kohts, a local civil servant. In 1913 she created zoopsychology laboratory at the Darwin Museum in Moscow. She graduated from the Women's Higher Courses in 1916. In 1945 she was promoted as a senior research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. She was named an Honored Scientist of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in 1960.
Ladygina-Kohts in her research compared psychology of humans and other primates. Behaviors, intelligence and emotions of young chimpanzees in comparison with human children were her main subject.