Role of Behavioral Sciences for National Development Under Globalization

Abstract

The Behavioural and Social Sciences are defined as the sciences of behavior, including individual psychological processes and behavioral interactions, and the sciences of social interaction, including familial, cultural, economic, and demographic. The study of behaviour has at least four important roles in personality psychology, these are given below: 1. Important behaviours are key phenomenon to be explained 2. Behaviour is the foundation of important theoretical phenomena (e.g. cross-situational behavioural consistency) 3. Behaviour is a mechanism within psychosocial processes 4. Behaviour reveals the importance and nature of personality constructs and measures. There are four general ways of knowing or fixing belief, viz., method of tenacity, method of authority, priory method or method of intuition and lastly – the method of science.