The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior

Author: Lance Workman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108900968
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1570

Book Description
The transformative wave of Darwinian insight continues to expand throughout the human sciences. While still centered on evolution-focused fields such as evolutionary psychology, ethology, and human behavioral ecology, this insight has also influenced cognitive science, neuroscience, feminist discourse, sociocultural anthropology, media studies, and clinical psychology. This handbook's goal is to amplify the wave by bringing together world-leading experts to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of evolution-oriented and influenced fields. While evolutionary psychology remains at the core of the collection, it also covers the history, current standing, debates, and future directions of the panoply of fields entering the Darwinian fold. As such, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior is a valuable reference not just for evolutionary psychologists but also for scholars and students from many fields who wish to see how the evolutionary perspective is relevant to their own work.

Perspectives on Student Behaviour in Schools

Author: Mere Berryman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134259107
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
The authors of this comprehensive text discuss the root causes of disruptive behaviour, tackle assessment issues and develop effective intervention strategies that will be of practical use to teachers and other educators. Whilst theorising behaviour management from a range of perspectives: psychodynamic, behavioural and socio-cultural, the authors remain firmly focused on practical issues of policy making, assessment and intervention, and address a wide range of related issues, such as: policy in relation to behaviour in schools at local authority, national and international level cultural concerns, race, gender, school discipline and exclusion medical perspectives of topical interest such as ADHD, autism and diet assessment at district, community, classroom and individual level, and how these underpin theory. This book will appeal to anyone for whom behaviour in schools is a key concern, such as student teachers, teacher educators, senior school managers and practising teachers undertaking further study in the field.

Behavior Science Perspectives on Culture and Community

Author: Traci M. Cihon
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030454215
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
All science proceeds by progressively building on the work of others while remaining open to new discoveries and challenging existing conceptual frameworks. The same is true of culturo-behavior science. This textbook presents the scientifically rigorous work of the last several decades that has taken a behavior-analytic view of social and cultural processes, with an eye for contributions that address social and cultural issues. The chapters herein explore and elaborate on the history, theories, and methodologies of culturo-behavior science and those of its researchers and practitioners. Throughout this volume, the authors intentionally prompt students to both learn from and question the current theory and methods while shaping their own research and practice. This book presents multiple intersecting perspectives intended for graduate-level students of behavior analysis. Contributors to this volume include many of the major scholars and practitioners conducting research and/or practicing in communities and larger cultural systems. Their work is scientifically guided, systemic, and ecologically valid; it includes basic research as well as efforts having applications in community health, sustainability, environmental issues, and social justice, among other matters. There is material here to support specialists preparing to do research or practice within community and cultural-level systems. As well, students who intend to do direct and clinical work will find the background they need to make contributions to the field as engaged, informed citizens.

Social Work Perspectives On Human Behaviour

Author: Parrish, Margarete
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335262848
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
This book explains the wide basis of perspectives on which we build an understanding of people's behaviours and why we respond in the way we do.

The New Psychology of Love

Author: Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847568X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
This is a much-needed update on the latest theory and research on love supplied by leading scientific experts. It is suitable for psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and anyone with an interest in love and what has been learned from scientific studies of it.

Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Author: Anissa Taun Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317243544
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
This addition to Anissa Rogers' bestselling Human Behavior in the Social Environment expands the original text with new chapters on spirituality, families and groups, organizations, and communities. Written in the compact, concise manner of the original text, the new chapters cover mezzo and macro contexts, and offer additional material valuable to two- and three-semester HBSE courses.

Sense and Nonsense

Author: Kevin N. Laland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199586969
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
This book asks whether evolution can help us to understand human behaviour and explores diverse evolutionary methods and arguments. It provides a short, readable introduction to the science behind the works of Dawkins, Dennett, Wilson and Pinker. It is widely used in undergraduate courses around the world.

The Person and the Situation

Author: Lee Ross
Publisher: Pinter & Martin Publishers
ISBN: 1905177445
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 502

Book Description
How does the situation we're in influence the way we behave and think? Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves in substantially affects our behavior in this timely reissue of one of social psychology's classic textbooks. With a new foreword by Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point.

Aggressive Behavior

Author: L.Rowell Huesmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 147579116X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
In this important work twelve eminent scholars review the latest theoretical work on human aggressive behavior. Emerging theories of aggression; peers, sex-roles, and aggression; environmental investigation and mitigation of aggression; development of adult aggression; and group aggression in adolescents and adults are all discussed in detail to provide clinicians, researchers, and students with a cutting-edge overview of the field.

Perspectives on Animal Behavior

Author: Judith Goodenough
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 568

Book Description
This work contains both contemporary research findings and historical experimental evidence. It includes the topic animal awareness, and there is requisite background material on genetics and other basic molecular topics.