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The dangers of analogy in human ethology

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Classical Ethology: concepts and implications for human ethology

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The problem of human ethology from the perspective of an experimental psychologist

The problem of human ethology from the perspective of an experimental psychologist

Has human ethology rediscovered Darwinism?

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An experiment in teaching human ethology

Students of ethology are often confused about the validity of arguments based on comparisons of animal and human behaviour. The problem can be dealt with purely theoretically. An alternative or additional method is to arrange for observational or experimental studies of human behaviour as an optional part of their course. Some results of doing this are described and discussed.

Human ethology, education, and learning

Human ethology, education, and learning

The biological unity of mankind: Human ethology, concepts and implications

The biological unity of mankind: Human ethology, concepts and implications

Human ethology and intra-individual systems

Human ethology and intra-individual systems

The 1974 H. Paul Douglass Lecture: Human Ethology: The Most Neglected Factor in Church Planning

The 1974 H. Paul Douglass Lecture: Human Ethology: The Most Neglected Factor in Church Planning

Social Territory, Community Health and Urban Planning

Abstract Sociological research has established the harmful effects of disrupting ethnic and other social structures in the central city. Proposals to redistribute urban poor in middle class suburbs may repeat these errors. Cassel and others have correlated various diseases with disordered social relationships that often accompany migration. Physical and social stress are shown to be least harmful to all classes when familiar group support is present; also the effects are most severe on individuals with lowest social status. Where a strange population is introduced into the territory of an indigenous one, social health and stability require protection of the cultural integrity of both groups. Legal and institutional changes of this sort should be accompanied by careful application of what might be called current anthropology or human ethology.

Ethology: The Biology of Behavior.Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt , Erich Klinghammer

Previous articleNext article No AccessNew Biological BooksEthology: The Biology of Behavior. Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt , Erich Klinghammer Jack P. HailmanJack P. Hailman Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 46, Number 4Dec., 1971 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/407074 Views: 2Total views on this site Citations: 28Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:David P. Barash Human ethology and human sociobiology, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 26–27.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00060428Jerome H. 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Klopfer What the ethologist's eye tells the ethologist's brain, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 39–40.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00060593Joseph K. Kovach “It just depends on what one wants to know”: Eibl-Eibesfeldt's Human Ethology, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 40–42.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X0006060XH. P. Lipp Brain complexity enhances speed of behavioral evolution, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 42–42.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00060611Ashley Montagu “Instincts,” infants, adults, and behavior, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 42–43.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00060623Steven A. Peterson On human ethology: some methodological comments, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 43–44.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00060635Glendon Schubert Classical Ethology: concepts and implications for human ethology, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 44–46.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00060647Pierre L. van den Berghe Ethology versus sociobiology: competitive displays, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 46–48.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00060659Douglas Wahlsten Some logical fallacies in the classical ethological point of view, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 48–49.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00060660S. L. Washburn Ethologists do not study human evolution, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 49–49.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00060672Edward O. Wilson Ethology and sociobiology: a point of definition, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 49–49.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00060684I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt Human ethology: methods and limits, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2, no.11 (May 2011): 50–57.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00060696

Social organization and the environment: Aspects of contemporary social ethology

Summary 1. A major development within the ethology of the last decade focusses attention upon the relations between social behaviour, ecology and population dynamics. This field may be termed ‘social ethology’ following an early but neglected usage of the term by Waxweiler at the start of the century. 2. Contemporary social ethology comprises three interdependent perspectives, socio-ecology, socio-demography and the study of social processes within natural and experimental groups. 3. In socio-ecology recent studies reveal that close correlations exist between the forms of avian and mammalian social organizations and their respective ecological niches. In particular the adaptive significance of certain mammalian societies comprising, on the one hand, multimale reproductive units and, on the other, those made up of one-male and all-male units is discussed and explanatory hypotheses derived from primate and ungulate data briefly considered. 4. In socio-demography research suggests that socially mediated mortality is of greater significance in the density-dependent control of bird and mammal numbers than had formerly been thought. The relations between ecological factors extrinsic to and social factors intrinsic to a social organization may be modelled in the form of open adaptive cybernetic systems rather than expressed in terms of analogies to closed mechanical or physiological systems. 5. Studies of social processes in non-human primate groups suggest that some form of role analysis may prove heuristic. The relations between dominance status, affiliative and kinship relations, social subterfuge and competition-contingent cooperation are discussed in an attempt to outline the dynamics of social change within relatively stable group structures. 6. ‘Human ethology’ seems at present to lack adequate definition as an academic discipline. Social ethology may provide the essential biological basis for future research in this area.

Film Studies in Human Ethology

Previous articleNext article No AccessFilm Studies in Human EthologyIrenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Hans HassIrenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt Search for more articles by this author and Hans Hass Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 8, Number 5, Part 1Dec., 1967Part 1 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/200833 Views: 8Total views on this site Citations: 12Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1967 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Jakob Odenwald Ethologists in the Kindergarten: Natural Behavior, Social Rank, and the Search for the “Innate” in Early Human Ethology (1960s‐1970s), Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 45, no.1-21-2 (Feb 2022): 87–111.https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202100022Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, T. Joel Wade, Miriam Tekeste Tallaksen, Trond Viggo Grøntvedt, Andrea M. Kessler, Rebecca L. Burch, Mons Bendixen Perceived Effectiveness of Flirtation Tactics: The Effects of sex, Mating Context and Individual Differences in US and Norwegian Samples, Evolutionary Psychology 20, no.11 (Mar 2022): 147470492210880.https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049221088011T. Joel Wade, Maryanne L. Fisher, Elizabeth Clark I saw him first: Competitive nonverbal flirting among women, the tactics used and their perceived effectiveness, Personality and Individual Differences 179 (Sep 2021): 110898.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110898Menelaos Apostolou, Christoforos Christoforou The art of flirting: What are the traits that make it effective?, Personality and Individual Differences 158 (May 2020): 109866.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109866Friedemann Schrenk, Anke Kuper, Anne Marie Rahn, Isabel Eiser Menschen in Sammlungen. Geschichte verpflichtet, (Dec 2017): 45–62.https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737008082.45T. Joel Wade, Jennifer Slemp How to Flirt Best: The Perceived Effectiveness of Flirtation Techniques, Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships 9, no.11 (Jun 2015): 32–43.https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v9i1.178Ian Hutchby, Michelle O’Reilly, Nicola Parker Ethics in praxis: Negotiating the presence and functions of a video camera in family therapy, Discourse Studies 14, no.66 (Dec 2012): 675–690.https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445612457487Heather Ross, Susan Abbey, Enza De Luca, Oliver Mauthner, Patricia McKeever, Margrit Shildrick, Jennifer Poole What they say versus what we see: “Hidden” distress and impaired quality of life in heart transplant recipients, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 29, no.1010 (Oct 2010): 1142–1149.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2010.05.009Rama Zor, Naomi Fineberg, Haggai Hermesh, Gbenga Asigo, Sanjay Nelson, Hena Agha, David Eilam Are There Between-Country Differences in Motor Behavior of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Patients?, CNS Spectrums 15, no.77 (Nov 2014): 445–455.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1092852900000377H. Lomax, N. Casey Recording Social Life: Reflexivity and Video Methodology, Sociological Research Online 3, no.22 (Sep 2017): 121–146.https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.1372Hugh Drummond The Nature and Description of Behavior Patterns, (Jan 1981): 1–33.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7575-7_1F. T. Cloak Is a cultural ethology possible?, Human Ecology 3, no.33 (Jul 1975): 161–182.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01531639