Rodgers, RJ (2015) No man is an island. A personal tribute to Bob Blanchard and ethoexperimental approaches to the study of behaviour. Physiology and Behavior, 146. 2 - 6. ISSN 0031-9384
Abstract
I first met Bob Blanchard at an international conference in Paris some 40 years ago. We collaborated intensively during the late 1980s/early 1990s on the ethopharmacology of antipredator defence in wild and laboratory rats, and remained good friends until his untimely passing in November 2013. Bob will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the most influential behavioural neuroscientists of the 20th century and, with Caroline, the most eloquent advocate of ethoexperimental approaches to the study of behaviour. In this brief trip down memory lane, I describe when and where Bob and I first met and how, over a lengthy period, he directly and indirectly helped shape my own research career. His profound influence in this regard is illustrated by reference to not only our collaborative research on antipredator behaviour but also my other work on the ethopharmacology of agonistic behaviour, social conflict analgesia, anxiety, and appetite. The element common to all of this work has been ethoexperimental analysis and, for teaching me the true value of this approach, I shall always remain indebted to the big man. Literally and figuratively, Bob was most certainly larger than life.
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Keywords: | Bob Blanchard; Ethoexperimental analysis; Defence; Ethopharmacology; Antipredator behaviour; Social conflict analgesia; Risk assessment; Anxiety; Plus-maze; Appetite |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2015 11:34 |
Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2018 23:00 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.12.025 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.12.025 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:89207 |