Anne C. Rose is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Religious Studies at Penn State University, where she taught from 1991 to 2018. She earned an AB at Cornell University and a PhD at Yale University.

Rose emphasizes the ways that scientists' personal lives influenced their views on emotion. She highlights the researchers' relationships with their animal subjects, arguing that it was these intimate connections that ultimately generated interest in animal emotions, despite the scientists' devotion to empirical objectivity. The author also discusses how many researchers' wives made substantial contributions to the field by working with their husbands as collaborators and ghost writers, despite their exclusion from academic institutions. In a field where most public players were men, these are important and often overlooked historical details . . . The volume will excel, however, with readers already versed in the field seeking to contextualize the current science.

Anne C. Rose is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Religious Studies at Penn State University, where she taught from 1991 to 2018. She earned an AB at Cornell University and a PhD at Yale University.

Rose emphasizes the ways that scientists' personal lives influenced their views on emotion. She highlights the researchers' relationships with their animal subjects, arguing that it was these intimate connections that ultimately generated interest in animal emotions, despite the scientists' devotion to empirical objectivity. The author also discusses how many researchers' wives made substantial contributions to the field by working with their husbands as collaborators and ghost writers, despite their exclusion from academic institutions. In a field where most public players were men, these are important and often overlooked historical details . . . The volume will excel, however, with readers already versed in the field seeking to contextualize the current science.