Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten), credited to Oskar Pfungst, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) by Oskar Pfungst. (Translated by Carl Leo Rahn.) Read in English by Jordan Watts Oskar Pfungst book is a detailed piece of investigative journalism looking into Clever Hans, an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic and other intellectual tasks. Pfungst details the results of many experiments, by the end of which he is able to explain exactly how Hans did it. This classic example of the observer-expectancy effect is still relevant today, as the "Clever Hans effect" has to be taken into account whenever a study of animal intelligence takes place. - Summary by Jordan

Recording facts

• Recording title: Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten)
• Author credits: Oskar Pfungst
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 8:26:18

Catalogue topics

• psychology
• horses
• animal intellegence
• animal cognition
• animal training
• comparative psychology

Track guide

1. 01 - Prefatory Note and Introduction — 29:12
2. 02 - The Problem of Animal Consciousness and ''Clever Hans'' — 29:57
3. 03 - Experiments and Observations - Part 1 — 57:01
4. 04 - Experiments and Observations - Part 2 — 53:25
5. 05 - The Author's Introspections — 27:35
6. 06 - Laboratory Tests — 1:06:33
7. 07 - Explanation of the Observations - Part 1 — 49:06
8. 08 - Explanation of the Observations - Part 2 — 50:02
9. 09 - Explanation of the Observations - Part 3 — 48:39
10. 10 - Genesis of the Reaction of the Horse — 54:41
11. 11 - Conclusion — 7:28
12. 12 - Supplements — 32:39

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