It's a bit different at the intro level. I'm talking about the professors and the grad students. It's not that they're directly religious, but I get a status-quo-preserving kind of feeling from them. Like maybe they're influenced by a tradition of not calling your patron an ape--or somesuch.
Weird, I would think it would be much less hand-holdy at that level.
It feels more like gatekeeping: let nobody who thinks animals talk to each other call themselves a psychologist.