Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality

University of Chicago Press (2013)
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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..

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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Quantitative Behavioral Genetics

Chapter 3. Social-Environmental Approaches

Chapter 4. Molecular Behavioral Genetics

Chapter 5. Neurobiological Approaches

Chapter 6. Integrative Approaches

Chapter 7. Scope and Limits of the Approaches

Chapter 8. What We Could Know

Chapter 9. Defining Behavior

Chapter 10. The Social Life of Behavioral Science

Chapter 11. A Brief Conclusion

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