MIRRORS AND RADICAL BEHAVIORISM - REFLECTIONS ON HEYES,C.M

Heyes's attempt to reinterpret research on primate cognition from the standpoint of radical behaviorism is strong on dialogue and debate but weak on evidence. Recent evidence concerning self-recognition, for ex ample, shows that her arguments about differential recovery from anest hetization and species differences in face touching as alternative acc ounts of the behavior of primates in the presence of mirrors) are inva lid.