Review of Psychology: A scientific study of human behavior. 5th ed.

1979 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 947-947
Author(s):  
RICHARD A. KASSCHAU
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Scientific Study

Review of Psychology: A Scientific Study of Human Behavior. 5th ed.

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 532-533
Author(s):  
Wrightsman ◽  
Sigelman ◽  
Sanford
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Scientific Study

scholarly journals Inculturation, Anthropology, and the Empirical Dimension of Evangelization

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivencio Ballano
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Theological Orientation ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
Christian Message

Using anthropological and theological perspectives and secondary literature, this paper argues that the scientific study of culture by professional anthropologists and social scientists is an essential component in the Catholic Church’s mission of evangelization through inculturation. Inculturation, the process of inserting the Christian message in society, requires scientific discernment to know which cultural traits are compatible with or contrary to the Christian faith, requiring anthropological training and active collaboration between theologians and professional anthropologists. Evangelization has incarnational and empirical dimensions when inserting the Gospel in human cultures. A genuine evangelization of cultures must be firmly rooted in the empirical reality of local cultures. The philosophical and theological orientation of many inculturationists and missionaries may sufficiently address the metaphysical dimension of the Christian faith, but not its empirical aspect when preached and adapted to human behavior in society, which entails scientific ethnographic research and active dialogue among clerics, missionaries, and social scientists.

scholarly journals Inspiration and Insinuation Influences on Human Thinking and Behavior: A Psychoanalytical, Psychodynamic, and Cognitive Phenomenon

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (27) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Jamal Ahmad Badi ◽  
Lukman Ayinde Olorogun
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Islamic Philosophy ◽  
Human Control ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
And Behavior

<p>Is insinuation one of the most influential phenomena in the early and continuous development of human behavior? Yes. Does previous scientific study give ample of time to understand unconsciousness and its manifestation from this point of view? No. As we have demonstrated in the following pages, insinuation does hold a high view in the divine scriptures as an opposite to inspiration. The scientific views on unconsciousness theory further ascertained its influence on human activities. A number of scientists however, denounced this clear evidence due to lack of laboratory prove of inspiration-cum-insinuation effects rather termed unconsciousness. In this essay, through dedicated analysis using both induction and deduction methods we showed that their theories failed to study unconsciousness from a holistic perspective. It only focused on those that have psychological and psychopathological problems in exclusion of reasonable human beings, thus, contained numerous errors that even contradicted their scientific findings. Following in-depth and dedicated analysis, we showed the influences of unseen phenomena that are beyond human control from Islamic philosophy viewpoints affirming earlier biblical claims of insinuation influences. We concluded by mentioning some of the physical evidences justified by the Islamic scripture “Qur’an” and some of the implications of these findings for certain aspects of the contemporary “inspiration and insinuation debates”. </p>

Ontology of Culture and the Study of Human Behavior

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilkka Pyysiäinen
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
General Property ◽  
Singular Term ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Abstract Entity ◽  
Mental Operations ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Independent Existence

AbstractIt is here argued that 'culture' is a universal in the philosophical sense of the term: it expresses a general property. It is not a singular term naming an abstract entity, but rather a singular predicate the intension of which is 'cultureness.' Popper's view of the ontology of mathematics is used as an analogous example in the light of which the ontology of culture is analyzed. Cultures do not have an independent existence (realism), they are not mere names (Nominalism), and neither do they exist as fixed entities in the mind (conceptualism). Cultures are abstractions made by the mind, which yet are not reducible to the mind. They exist in the form of certain mental operations creating a new level of reality. Scientific study of culture involves both explaining how cultural phenomena are constructed in minds and how these constructions function in cognition and communication.

scholarly journals A Scientific Study of Religion as a Catalyst to Bring Positive Change in Human Behavior

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Naveed Shibli ◽  
Mudassir Ahmad ◽  
Anwar ul Haq ◽  
Hafiz Hameedullah ◽  
Noshaba Anjum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
School System ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Abrahamic Religions ◽  
A Chain

It is a fact well-established that religion has influenced humankind throughout the course of history irrespective of the strength of its influence and its permanence that reflects its relatedness with human existence. It was assumed that the lesser befitting implementation of ‘modernity’ in the ancient tradition of religion is one of the causes of low religious productivity and less positivity in the present day life. Perhaps this is the case with all the Abrahamic religions. An amalgamation of tradition and moderation in a chain of a school system was assessed. The psychological and scientific follow up of the outcome supported the fact that religion has the ability to bring in positive and desirable ‘behavioral change’ in a given direction and to contribute towards ‘peace’ which is an internationally known positivity.

The Human Animal

2018 ◽  
pp. 102-112
Author(s):  
Erika Lorraine Milam
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Animal Behavior ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Intraspecific Aggression ◽  
Single Entity ◽  
Konrad Lorenz ◽  
Early Humans ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter turns to the work of Konrad Lorenz. Primarily interested in the scientific study of animal behavior, Lorenz believed that understanding how and why animals behave the way they do would shed light on the predicament of human behavior and the problem of nuclear escalation. Whereas Ardrey had lumped together hunting, cannibalism, and murderous rage into a single entity that defined humanity, Lorenz carefully distinguished the hunger associated with the killing of other species for food (an interspecific behavior) from (intraspecific) aggression inherent to killing a member of one's own species. Hunters and warriors were not the same thing—and between them, Lorenz was interested in only the latter. One of the deepest intellectual splits between Ardrey and Lorenz concerned the timing and causality of man's relationship with tools of war: whereas Ardrey insisted that the accidental discovery of weapons drove our intellectual and social development as humans (the weapon made the man), Lorenz flipped these, asserting the far more commonly held belief that early humans self-consciously developed weapons as tools for hunting.

A Point by Point Response to Don Wiebe: A Manifesto for the Scientific Study of Religion

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jeppe Sinding Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Methodological Naturalism ◽  
Theory Ladenness

Abstract A point by point response to Wiebe’s ‘Manifesto’, mostly in support of the ‘methodological naturalism’—with added precautions on the current use of the term ‘science’. A philosophy for the study of religion is called for, with an epistemological range that caters for collective methodologies and social ontologies; respects the analytic distinction between ‘subject matter’ and ‘theoretical object’—and, ultimately, the theory-ladenness of all talk about ‘religion’. Naturalism is not about givens in the study of meaningful human behavior.

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