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	Luther Lee Bernard: Instincts and the Psychoanalysts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These "instincts" are, of course, quite consistent with his theory of the "libido," but he does not develop diem ostensibly as a psychological or neurological support to that theory.
		Doubtless the adoption of the theory of the instincts as a systematic basis for psychoanalysis represents a real logical advance from the old empirical or relatively disconnected generalizations of the Freudians, but it does not mark the achievement of a scientific content for the theory or a scientific method for the practice of psychoanalysis.
		He transforms the gregarious instinct of McDougall into the herd instinct of Jung, made popular among the metaphysicians of the mental and social sciences by Trotter,[36] and adopts it as the third in his trinity of the fundamental urges basic to human nature and activity.
	spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Bernard/Bernard_1922b.html (6076 words)

	ROGER SANDALL - The Herd Instinct (Spiked Article Dec 06)
		Herd behavior among the cattle of Damara land, he wrote in 1871, resulted from aeons of evolutionary selection that produced a mentality given to timidity, caution, and fear.
		But a herd of animals, when considered as a whole, is always on the alert; at almost every moment some eyes, ears, and noses will command all approaches, and the start or cry of alarm of a single beast is a signal to all his companions.
		There is a certain size of herd most suitable to the geographical and other conditions of the country; it must not be too large, or the scattered puddles which form their only watering-places for a great part of the year would not suffice; and there are similar drawbacks in respect to pasture.
	www.culturecult.com /sandall_dec06.htm (3785 words)

	Herding - Stock Dog - Canada's Guide to Dogs
		By far the most popular of the herding dogs is the Border Collie, well known for his ability to run fast and wide to gather large groups and creep up slowly so as not to spook the sheep.
		Once a dog has had his instinct tested and has shown evidence of herding instinct, the next step is to find a facility and trainer.
		The Herding Instinct Test is not a CKC recognized test and is open to all breeds, registered as well as non-registered.
	www.canadasguidetodogs.com /clubs/herding.htm (2574 words)

	"Herd Instinct" Definition
		Characterized by a lack of individuality, herd mentality is associated with people thinking and acting like the general population.
		Herd Instinct - Characterized by a lack of individuality, herd mentality is associated with people thinking and acting like the general population.
		Herd Instinct : characterized by a lack of individuality, herd mentality is associated with people thinking and acting like the general population.
	dictionary.itlocus.com /h/herd_instinct.html (63 words)

	E. Belfort Bax: The "Herd Instinct" (1918)
		The instinct animating the gregariousness of earliest man evolved in the latter case into the social consciousness of humanity on the one side, and on the other into the separatism and narrow exclusiveness of the clan, tribe and people.
		The general principle of this “herd instinct” is even strong enough, it would seem, to overpower the natural predilections of special herd instincts or patriotisms.
		It is a striking illustration indeed of the ethically poisonous effects of the worship of the mere “herd instinct,” as such, as a part of human morality.
	www.marxists.org /archive/bax/1918/01/instinct.htm (563 words)

	The Herd Instinct
		In a herd, horses use a chain of commands to lower the amount of fights over food, water, and other horses.
		Herd members are ranked, and contol is determined from these rankings.
		Herd communication is not only important to horses but, also valuable to the human understanding of horse communication.
	www.horsespirit5.com /herd.html (236 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		Herdsman is O.E. heordman, but not common until herd in sense of "keeper of domestic animals which go in herds" fell from use (cf.
		Intrusive -s- appeared c.1600, on model of craftsman, etc. Herd instinct in psychology is first recorded 1908.
		Shepherds customarily were buried with a tuft of wool in hand, to prove their occupation on Doomsday and be excused for often missing Sunday church.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=herd (753 words)

	All about horses
		The horse is a creature of instinct which were developed in the wild state as a means to survive the natural hazards of the environment and as a defence against predatory carnivores, including man.
		Horses are hervivores, non-aggressive herd animals whose defence mechanisms are based on the ability to move swiftly away from danger and any study of the horse personality in relation to training must take account of these factors.
		An example of the instinct being overcome by training is when a show jumper leaves the collecting ring and his herd of the moment, to jump his round in the arena.
	www.interkonect.com /all-about-horses/abouthorses.htm (689 words)

	Herd Instinct in Horses
		Horses are social herd animals that follow a leader and conform to a dominance hierarchy.
		For their own safety they choose to be a part of a group of horses such as a band or a herd.
		All wild horses are herd animals living off the land in harems dominated by the strongest stallions.
	www.sportpolo.com /Polo_Pony/Herd_Instinct.htm (541 words)

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		The herd instinct is responsible for the development of language, and explains why people in groups tend to exhibit less confidence and initiative.
		Trotter also makes a note that the herd instinct is a natural culmination of cellular evolution, as simple bacteria progressed to cells with organelles, and those cells then evolved to form complex organisms with differentiated cells.
		Trotter argues that children’s fear of being alone is an early manifestation of the herd instinct, and Freud uses this as a vehicle to destroy Trotter’s theory.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~drew0025/school/freud2.txt (3322 words)

	Western Horseman
		Following the flight instinct, one of the horse’s primary instincts is the herd instinct.
		The size of the wild herd ensures that when the predator kills one of the herd, it’s probably from the fringes of the herd, where the weak, old or injured run because they aren’t as fast.
		When the herd is threatened, she decides which direction and how far the herd will run.
	www.westernhorseman.com /web_extras/herd_leader.shtml (1020 words)

	Macy's for Sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The author asserts that gregariousness is an instinct and examines both the offensive and defensive aspects, showing conscience as an indirect result of this instinct.
		It is the origin of the popularization of the phrase "herd instinct" in the course of human behavior in the actual affairs of life.
		He was a surgeon at the University College Hospital in London from 1906, and held the office of honorary surgeon to King George V from 1928 to 1932.
	www.beardbooks.com /instincts_of_the_herd_in_peace_and_war.html (382 words)

	People are Herd Animals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The answer is that people are herd animals, and that when behavior is viewed in relationship to the herd mind, a lot of things can be explained and understood.
		The instinct to be tribal is so strong that many people will kill themselves as a result of separation from or rejection by the herd.
		In order to be a member of the herd, the member has to surrender control of part of their thinking and decision making process to the group consciousness.
	www.churchofreality.org /opinion/herd.htm (4480 words)

	Herd/Pack Behavior
		It is easily to see how having a herd instinct would cause an individual to feel more comfortable with many other herd member around it to protect it.
		The herd member does not necessarily need to know the other herd members individually for any animal which looked or acted differently could well be a predator and thus a threat.
		The population would be a large enough for an individual with the herd instinct to feel safe; and would at the same time be small enough for an individual with the pack instinct to know everyone and therefore also feel comfortable.
	webpages.charter.net /graywolf/meanderings/herd.html (672 words)

	Herd Instinct (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The scene invites us to accept the unexpected; 12 Queen Anne tables – pieces of furniture to be used for display, to eat from, to read at, and meet, associated generally with the domestic homestead – but the tables have turned.
		Escaped, they run together, homeless, like a herd of wild buffalo roaming across the urban plains, they spill in waves off the sides of the building, jumping from one roof to another, down to and across the courtyard below.
		"HERD INSTINCT" alludes to the fundamental uncontrollability of nature in an urban setting, how people, objects and environment, regardless of construct, inevitably and intrinsically are tied to the mysterious, chaotic, and organic.
	www.metaphorm.org /pages/portfolio/herd_i/herd_i.html (130 words)

	Articles
		Work your way up the herd hierarchy to a level of dominance that ensures that you eat and drink first, get to be sheltered when needed, and earn and maintain a position at the head or middle of the herd when the predators attack.
		The size of the wild herd ensures that when the predator kills one of the herd, it's probably from the fringes of the herd where the weak, old, or injured run because they are not as fast.
		This herd leader has unquestioning authority which is important when you are not the predator and you are the lunch.
	www.horsebasics.net /articles.ivnu (8705 words)

	CLOSEMINDED SCIENCE: New Ideas in Science
		It is not just the herd instinct in the individuals that you have to worry about, but you have to worry about how it is augmented by the way in which science is handled.
		It is this tendency for herd behavior that is greatly aggravated by the support structure of science in which we believe nowadays.
		So we see that the herd instinct is a tendency in the human makeup, which is itself a severe handicap for science.
	www.amasci.com /freenrg/newidea1.html (4765 words)

	herd_instinct_ in_medicine
		Once having left the herd in opinion or practice, mavericks are initially ignored but eventually scorned and ostracized by the group, who might be completely unwilling to listen to new ideas, because they already possess truth.
		While the herd instinct in modern medicine has produced many benefits and pearls of wisdom, we must never assume that we as a profession possess the whole truth.
		As a consequence of the herd instinct in medicine, there arises another phenomenon that is very much akin to what happened to Carl Sagan.
	www.aehf.com /articles/herd_instinct_in_medicine.html (1704 words)

	Danger
		This is related through the herd instinct and our ancient instinct for survival through the herd.
		What is meant by this is what is referred to as the law of agreement- the tendency for the herd to agree on concepts, regardless of their truth value, to foster communication and enhance chances for survival.
		The problem with this is the tendency for the herd to refuse to reshape these rules when necessary; for those who alter the rules even slightly and deviate from the agreement face great danger.
	www.wpunj.edu /wpcpages/sch-hmss/philosophy/COURSES/NIETNET/DANGER.HTM (1150 words)

	Magellan's Log: Herds and Stories
		Even humans, such as for example Americans, who pride themselves on what they (and their advertisers) think of as "rugged individualism" are at bottom pretty much as prone to herd behavior as humans who pride themselves on their "communal" or "family" spirit, such as East Asians.
		Other clever herd-members, at usually considerable risk, step away from the herd and spin really unusual clever stories (sometimes their very life away from the herd is the story ["I am the way, the truth, the light"]).
		Herd may be all, but life in it does tend to dull one’s wits.
	www.texaschapbookpress.com /magellanslog94/herds.htm (1122 words)

	Psychologists make better shareholders
		They found no signs of 'herd instinct' during the experiment — on the contrary, some of the test subjects decided against buying those specific shares which had just been bought by so many other players.
		Hardly any explanation of the turbulences on the financial markets are without some reference to the marked predisposition to the herd instinct which allegedly investors show.
		Whether shareholders really are influenced by the 'herd instinct' is therefore hard to determine in practice.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-01/uob-pmb010906.php (793 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		"psychic drive or energy, usually associated with sexual instinct," 1909, in A.A. Brill's translation of Freud's "Selected Papers on Hysteria," from L. libido "desire, lust," from libere "to be pleasing, to please," ultimately cognate with O.E. lufu (see love).
		To do something by the seat of (one's) pants "by human instinct" is from 1942, originally of pilots, perhaps with some notion of being able to sense the condition and situation of the plane by engine vibrations, etc.
		The noun is attested from 1661, "one who has forsaken a doctrine or system regarded as true, apostate;" psychological sense of "one who has a perversion of the sexual instinct" is attested from 1897 (Havelock Ellis), originally esp. of homosexuals.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=instinct (462 words)

	BOI - The herd instinct in analysts' recommendations: the evidence from Israel capital market
		The herd instinct is a well-known aspect of group behavior in many social and economic contexts, and it is also reflected in various financial decisions.
		That said, an examination of the herd effect in these recommendations shows that together with the creation of a cluster at the time they are published, the forecasts of the target price converge towards the consensus.
		The study shows that the herd effect in analysts' recommendations becomes stronger the smaller the incentive to introduce a bias and the greater the number of analysts in the cluster.
	www.bankisrael.gov.il /deptdata/mehkar/papers/dp0701e.htm (620 words)

	Herd behavior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that Herding instinct be merged into this article or section.
		Examples of phenomena that have been described as involving herd behavior include stock market bubbles, stock market crashes, riots, demonisation and persecution of minorities, and political or religious zealotry.
		Herding behavior is frequent, and often relatively benign, in everyday decision making.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herd_behavior (1019 words)

	Herd instinct rules at sheepdog contest - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The dog first must locate the sheep on a hillside about 600 yards away and fetch them to the competition area, where the handler directs the dog to drive the sheep through a series of maneuvers that ends with the five animals in a pen.
		Border collies have been bred and taught to herd sheep for more than 200 years, beginning across the Atlantic in the border country between England and Scotland.
		She spends about 60 hours a week tending to her three border collies, she said, adding that she would change careers instantly if she could make a living working sheep and training dogs.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/09/25/herd_instinct_rules_at_sheepdog_contest (633 words)

	The Enneagram Institute Discussion Board - Article on herd instinct vs. pack instinct
		Now here is the thing: To me it is relatively obvious that the herd instinct is the same as the social instinct that we have typically defined.
		I think the sexual instinct may be a modifier here, to some degree...although it could depend on the individual too.
		I'd say my social instinct manifests as a "loose" herd instinct like that of a giraffe...freedom to come and go as I please, but enjoying the presence of other creatures, maybe making a few "friends" or preferences but not making a huge deal of it.
	www.enneagraminstitute.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11016 (1775 words)

	The Herd Instinct (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Horses have evolved since prehistoric time as a prey animal, in other words, a food source for meat eating predators and learned early on that there was safety in numbers.
		It was their instinctive need for survival that created the herd relationships that we know today.
		Horses are unique in that they are individuals with their own personalities yet they must be able to blend in with other horses of their herd for survival.
	www.brightranch.com /homeontheranch/herdinstinct.htm (313 words)

	BOUND TO THE HERD
		To a wild horse, the herd is his whole world, and his place within that herd, his most important concern.
		The stronger the herd instinct, the more difficulty a rider will experience when riding with a group of horses, even horses that don’t live together and have no herd history between them.
		If herd bound is not allowed to form during those early years, it is less likely to be a problem later, so long as the horse is not given an opportunity to bond with a group.
	paintedvalley.com /bound_herd.htm (1049 words)

	ENOC - European Network of Ombudspeople for Children - Herd Instinct: Children and livestock in the Horn of Africa
		Herd Instinct: Children and livestock in the Horn of Africa
		Although criticised for many years for their apparent mismanagement of herds and natural resources, African pastoralists are increasingly regarded as rational, productive and highly skilled livestock keepers.
		For example, one area of interest is the relationship between children's herding duties which contribute towards household food and income, and the development of education services which recognise mobility and labour requirements of pastoral systems.
	www.crin.org /enoc/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=1007&flag=report (672 words)

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