Sentences with phrase «explanations for human behavior»
JRM: What are other examples of proposed evolutionary explanations for human behavior that fall outside the paradigm?
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As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that person just did that really weird thing.
But if all there is to be given is a causal explanation, for example, «I suffer a rare but medically understood muscular spasm,» it is still clearly a piece of human behavior but it is not, properly speaking, an «act.»
One explanation for the similarities between dogs and humans is that the two species may have evolved under similar pressures that favored «survival of the friendliest,» with benefits and rewards for more cooperative social behavior.
A study that compares us with other primates finds a brain region linked to social behavior that may offer a biological explanation for why humans, not chimps, produced Shakespeare, Gandhi and Einstein
A second explanation for this behavior is that babies» expectations about animals and their insides are tied to the cognitive systems humans evolved to deal with predators and prey — in other words, to deal with animals as a food source.
«While this boom / bust pattern is familiar to macroeconomists, who have developed complex models for generating business cycles, there may be a simpler explanation based on human behavior.
The following are additional feline specific behaviors and an explanation of how their senses can conflict with the very human world that we expect for cats -LSB-...]