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human behavior
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The cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour: a word of caution link.springer.com Apr 8, 2022 6 facts
perspectiveResearch on human behavior inherently generates ethical reverberations, regardless of political context.
claimMore than 85% of the current world population is absent from research published in top developmental psychology journals that make general claims about human behavior.
claimCross-cultural research can avoid the pitfalls of 'butterfly collecting' by questioning the alleged universality of human behavior and thought observed in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) populations, or by identifying universal patterns that were previously unobservable when research was limited to WEIRD populations.
claimThere is a long-standing intellectual division between social sciences and humanities, which focus on culture as their object of analysis, and natural sciences of human behavior, which focus on pre- or non-cultural aspects.
perspectiveThe author contends that cross-cultural research on human behavior and cognition may not always be relevant to a genuinely global science of the human.
referenceSalazar (2018) argues that cultural difference, cultural learning, and cultural determination of human behavior do not integrate well with factors typically given explanatory value in naturalistic approaches.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 6 facts
perspectivePsychologist Deirdre Barrett asserts that supernormal stimulation governs human behavior as powerfully as it governs the behavior of other animals.
referenceThe journal Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective advances the interdisciplinary investigation of the biological, social, and environmental factors that underlie human behavior, focusing on the functional unity and interaction of evolutionary, biological, and sociological processes.
referenceDonald Symons authored 'On the use and misuse of Darwinism in the study of human behavior' in 1992, which critiques the application of Darwinian principles to human behavior.
claimEvolutionary psychologists argue that much of human behavior is the output of psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments.
claimJohn Alcock argues that researchers can be reasonably confident about the conditions of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA) because many human behaviors are adaptive in the current environment, suggesting the ancestral environment shared significant similarities with the present.
claimBehavioral ecology developed in the 1970s as a branch of ethology that focused on the ecological and evolutionary basis of animal and human behavior, with less emphasis on social behavior compared to sociobiology.
Evolutionary Psychology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 6 facts
claimHuman behavior is guided by cognitive mechanisms that were selected for because they produced behavior that was adaptive in the evolutionary environment of our ancestors.
referenceEvolutionary psychology, in its broad sense, attempts to adopt an evolutionary perspective on human behavior and psychology by applying Darwinian reasoning to behavioral, cognitive, social, or cultural characteristics of humans.
claimEvolutionary psychology is defined as a general field of inquiry that attempts to adopt an evolutionary perspective on human behavior by supplementing psychology with the central tenets of evolutionary biology.
claimThe purpose of Evolutionary Psychology is to discover and explain cognitive mechanisms that guide current human behavior by identifying them as selected solutions to recurrent adaptive problems prevalent in the evolutionary environment of ancestors.
referenceTim Caro and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder published 'The Problem of Adaptation in the Study of Human Behavior' in 1987, discussing the challenges of identifying adaptations in human behavior.
referenceThe book 'Sense or Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior' (2002) by Kevin Laland and Gillian Brown serves as an introduction to sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology, memetics, and gene-culture coevolution.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 3 facts
claimThe principle of physical causal closure allows for the possibility that some physical events, such as quantum events, are truly random and lack a cause, while maintaining that all caused physical events, including human behavior, have complete physical explanations.
claimInteractionist dualism is ruled out by the broad version of the principle of physical causal closure because interactionist dualism claims that some physical events, such as human behavior, require explanation through fundamental psychophysical laws rather than physical laws.
claimHuman behavior can be explained physically without referencing conscious states like the feeling of pain or the intention to move.
Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Aug 19, 2003 2 facts
claimSome theorists argue that quantum indeterminacy only manifests at the subatomic level and is cancelled out by the time it reaches macroscopic objects, such as human behavior.
perspectiveMany philosophers reject the epiphenomenalist view of consciousness because it implies that conscious experiences—such as feeling pain, visual sensations, or understanding an argument—have no causal influence on human behavior.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 2 facts
quote“Even in the science of the mind, much progress has been made. Recent work in cognitive science and neuroscience is leading us to a better understanding of human behavior and of the processes that drive it. We do not have many detailed theories of cognition, to be sure, but there are few problems of principle; the details cannot be too far off. But consciousness is as perplexing as it ever was. It still seems utterly mysterious that the causation of behavior should be accompanied by conscious experience. We do not just lack a detailed theory; we are in the dark about what a theory of consciousness would even look like. […] We are entirely in the dark about how it fits into the natural order. This means that a correct theory of consciousness is likely to affect our conception of the universe more profoundly than any other new scientific development. Consciousness is both fundamental and unexplained; this makes for a potent cocktail”
claimDavid Chalmers argues that while cognitive science and neuroscience have made progress in understanding human behavior, consciousness remains mysterious and researchers lack a theoretical framework for what a theory of consciousness would look like.
[PDF] Analyzing the Relationship between Language and Identity grnjournal.us 1 fact
claimSocial identity plays a significant role in shaping human behavior.
Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Jan 29, 2024 1 fact
claimBehaviorists believe that the brain's structures, cells, and neural connections form the basis of human behavior, which can be modified through stimulus.
(PDF) Language and Consciousness; How Language Implies Self ... academia.edu 1 fact
claimThe emergence of consciousness as a regulator of human behavior is rooted in a complex interplay of inherent and acquired elements that materialize during socialization.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
referenceB. F. Skinner published 'Science and Human Behavior' in 1953 through MacMillan in New York.
Resolving the evolutionary paradox of consciousness link.springer.com Apr 1, 2024 1 fact
claimThe physical world being causally closed under quantum mechanics does not necessarily preclude consciousness from causing macrophysical occurrences such as human behaviors.
Evolutionary Eating — What We Can Learn From Our Primitive Past todaysdietitian.com Apr 1, 2009 1 fact
perspectiveMarlene Zuk argues that evolution has affected human physiology and behavior, and warns against oversimplifying the idea of applying ancestral diets to modern life.
How men's and women's brains are different | Stanford Medicine stanmed.stanford.edu May 22, 2017 1 fact
claimDetermining the exact percentage contribution of culture versus biology to human behavior is difficult due to the complexity of social environments.