Robert Hinde

Robert Hinde
Born (1923-10-26)26 October 1923
Norwich, England
Died 23 December 2016(2016-12-23) (aged 93)
Citizenship British
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions University of Cambridge
Thesis A comparative behaviour study of the Paridae (1951)
Doctoral advisor David Lack
Doctoral students
Influences Niko Tinbergen

Robert Aubrey Hinde CBE FRS FBA /haɪnd/ (26 October 1923 – 23 December 2016) was a British zoologist, the Emeritus Royal Society Research Professor of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.[1]

Biography

Born in Norwich, England, Hinde was the master of St. John's College, Cambridge in 1989-94.[2] He was the chair of British Pugwash. He studied "the application of biological and psychological data to understanding the bases of religion and ethics" and "eliminating the causes of war".[3]

Hinde was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge and at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association.

He died on 23 December 2016 at the age of 93.[4]

Publications

  • Animal behaviour: a synthesis of ethology and comparative psychology. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. ISBN 0-07028-927-1
  • Biological Bases of Human Social Behaviour (1974).[5]
  • . "Can Nonhuman Primates Help Us Understand Human Behavior?". In Smuts, B.B.; Cheney, D.L.; Seyfarth, R.M.; Wrangham, R.W.; Struhsaker T.T. (eds). Primate Societies. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press. pp. 413–420. ISBN 0-226-76715-9.
  • Towards Understanding Relationships. London: London Academic Press, 1979.
  • Cooperation and prosocial behaviour (Ed. with Jo Groebel). Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-521-39110-5
  • The institution of war (Ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. ISBN 0-312-06611-2
  • Relationships: a dialectical perspective. Hove, East Sussex: Psychological Press, 1997. ISBN 0-86377-706-6
  • Why gods persist: a scientific approach to religion. London: Routledge, 1999. ISBN 0-415-20825-4
  • Why good is good: the sources of morality. London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-27752-3
  • War, no more: eliminating conflict in the nuclear age (Ed. with Joseph Rotblat). London: Pluto Press, 2003. ISBN 0-7453-2192-5
  • Van der Horst FCP; Van der Veer R; Van IJzendoorn MH (2007). "John Bowlby and ethology: An annotated interview with Robert Hinde". Attachment & Human Development. 9 (4): 321–335. doi:10.1080/14616730601149809. ISSN 1469-2988. PMID 17852051. Retrieved 2007-11-30. #

References

  1. ↑ "Emeritus Royal Society Research Professor Robert Aubrey Hinde, CBE, FRS, FBA,FRCPsych — Department of Zoology". zoo.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "The Master and Fellows of St John's College | St John's College, Cambridge". joh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-12-14.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 28 December 2004. Retrieved 31 March 2006.
  4. ↑ HINDE
  5. ↑ Hinde, R.A. (1974). Biological bases of human social behaviour. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070289321. Retrieved 2014-12-14.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Francis Harry Hinsley		 Master of St John's College, Cambridge
1989–1994		 Succeeded by
Peter Goddard


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