Book ID: CBB539842089

Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality (2013)

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Longino, Helen E. (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 256 pages
Language: English

In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E. Longino enters into the complexities of human behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of “nature versus nurture.” Rather than supporting one side or another or attempting to replace that dichotomy with a different framework for understanding behavior, Longino focuses on how scientists study it, specifically sexual behavior and aggression, and asks what can be known about human behavior through empirical investigation. She dissects five approaches to the study of behavior—quantitative behavioral genetics, molecular behavior genetics, developmental psychology, neurophysiology and anatomy, and social/environmental methods—highlighting the underlying assumptions of these disciplines, as well as the different questions and mechanisms each addresses. She also analyzes efforts to integrate different approaches. Longino concludes that there is no single “correct” approach but that each contributes to our overall understanding of human behavior. In addition, Longino reflects on the reception and transmission of this behavioral research in scientific, social, clinical, and political spheres. A highly significant and innovative study that bears on crucial scientific questions, Studying Human Behavior will be essential reading not only for scientists and philosophers but also for science journalists and anyone interested in the engrossing challenges of understanding human behavior.

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Authors & Contributors
Haynes, April Rose
Beccalossi, Chiara
Cadden, Joan
Colantuono, Anthony
Horvath, Christopher D.
Kim, Sungsu
Journals
Biology and Philosophy
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Gesnerus
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Journal of the History of Biology
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
Johns Hopkins University Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pepperdine University
Concepts
Sexuality
Sexual behavior
Sexology
Physiology
Science and literature
Psychology
People
Beckett, Samuel
Beer, Theodor
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Bonaparte, Marie
Bordeu, Théophile de
Darwin, Charles Robert
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
16th century
17th century
Places
Italy
United States
Vienna (Austria)
Great Britain
Europe
Germany
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