尼可拉斯·“尼可”·丁伯根（Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen，1907年4月15日—1988年12月21日）是一位荷兰动物行为学家与鸟类学家。

1973年他与卡尔·冯·弗利、康拉德·洛伦兹因为在动物个体和群体行为的构成和激发方面做出了重大的贡献，共同获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

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Abstract

Biographers have largely dismissed Nikolaas 'Niko' Tinbergen's late research into the causes and treatment of autism, describing it as a deviation from his previous work, influenced by his personal desires.They have pointed to the incoherence of Tinbergen's assertions about best practices for treating autism, his lack of experience with children with autism, and his apparent embracing of psychogenic theories that the medical research community had largely abandoned. While these critiques have value, it is significant that Tinbergen himself saw his research as a logical extension of his seminal findings in the field of ethology, the science of animal behaviour. The reception of his theories, both positive and negative, was due less to their strengths or faults than to the fact that Tinbergen had inserted himself into a pre-existing and acrimonious debate in the autism research community. Debates about the relative role of environmental and hereditary factors in the aetiology of autism, and the implications of both for the efficacy of different treatments, had political and material significance for the success of parent organizations' lobbying efforts and financial support for research programmes. Tinbergen's approach was welcomed and even championed by a significant minority, who saw no problem with his ideas or methods.

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Publication types

• Biography

• Historical Article

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• Animals

• Autistic Disorder / history*

• Child, Preschool

• Ethology / history*

• History, 20th Century

• Humans

• Infant

• Netherlands

• Psychoanalysis / history*

• Psychoanalytic Theory*

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• Nikolaas Tinbergen

• Elisabeth Tinbergen

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