Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Austrian German pronunciation: [ˈkɔnʁaːd tsaxaˈʁiːas ˈloːʁɛnts] ; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist...
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perspectives to human behavior and social organization. Ethologist Konrad Lorenz was the first to describe the Kewpie doll effect and propose the effect's...
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Instinct (section Konrad Lorenz)
does. An interest in innate behaviours arose again in the 1950s with Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen, who made the distinction between instinct and...
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forger Konrad Laimer (born 1997), Austrian Footballer Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), Austrian scientist Konrad Mägi (1878–1925), Estonian painter Konrad Morgen...
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analytical model in ethology, first introduced by Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz. Lorenz proposed the concept of baby schema (Kindchenschema), a set of facial...
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the Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and the Austrian biologists Konrad Lorenz and Karl von Frisch, the three winners of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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Fixed action pattern (category Konrad Lorenz)
completion. This term is often associated with Konrad Lorenz, who is the founder of the concept. Lorenz identified six characteristics of fixed action...
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The Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology (German: Konrad-Lorenz-Institut für Vergleichende Verhaltensforschung or KLIVV) is a research institute in Vienna...
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studied extensively and popularized by his disciple Konrad Lorenz working with greylag geese. Lorenz demonstrated how incubator-hatched geese would imprint...
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of Solomon, a legendary ring King Solomon's Ring (book), a book by Konrad Lorenz "King Solomon's Ring" (short story), a short story by Roger Zelazny...
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not to bite their siblings and parents too hard. Austrian scientist Konrad Lorenz explains that the inferior animal shows its most vulnerable part to...
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The Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle (KLF) is a research facility in Grünau im Almtal (Upper Austria), maintained jointly by private and public entities...
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Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (category Works by Konrad Lorenz)
Menschheit) is a book by the Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz. It is about major threats against humans that Lorenz sees in ingoing disregards of nature and...
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1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of...
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King Solomon's Ring (book) (redirect from King Solomon's Ring (Lorenz))
is a general-audience zoological book, written by Austrian scientist Konrad Lorenz in 1949. The first English-language edition was published in 1952. The...
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the individual or gene. Early authors such as V. C. Wynne-Edwards and Konrad Lorenz argued that the behavior of animals could affect their survival and...
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On Aggression (category Works by Konrad Lorenz)
the natural history of aggression") is a 1963 book by the ethologist Konrad Lorenz; it was translated into English in 1966. As he writes in the prologue...
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Since 1965, the area around the Almsee is under nature conservation. Konrad Lorenz made important observations of the greylag goose at the lake. Near the...
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Hawk/goose effect (category Konrad Lorenz)
1937 and a more systematic study was conducted in the same year by Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen which is considered one of the classic experiments...
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Karl Landsteiner, Erwin Schrödinger, Victor Franz Hess, Otto Loewi, Konrad Lorenz and Friedrich Hayek. The University of Vienna was the cradle of the...
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The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) is an international center for advanced studies in the life and sustainability...
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Medicine. The awarding of the prize in 1973 to Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz, and Karl von Frisch for their observations of animal behavioural patterns...
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Orthopaedic Surgery. He was the father of famed ethologist Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989). Adolf Lorenz is remembered for his work with bone deformities. As a...
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physicist Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist Kuno Lorenz (born 1932), German philosopher Lee Lorenz (1932-2022)...
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colonialism, eugenics, and social Darwinism. For example, in 1940, Konrad Lorenz, in writings that he subsequently disowned, used the theory as a justification...
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honour of Konrad Lorenz, and during his lecture, Bustad praised him for his work on the human–animal bond and encouraged others to build on Lorenz's work on...
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in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. His work centered on investigations of the sensory perceptions of the...
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beak in the soil to enlarge a hole. This behaviour, first described by Konrad Lorenz and given the German term zirkeln, is also used to create and widen...
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The Waning of Humaneness (category Works by Konrad Lorenz)
the Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz. The book is an analysis of increasing artificiality under technocratic rule, where Lorenz did not see any major distinction...
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rediscovered by Oskar Heinroth, then studied at length and popularised by Konrad Lorenz. He was greatly ahead of his time in his recognition of the importance...
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