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GENETIC BASIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR *
Author(s) -
Inouye Eiji
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1964.tb02382.x
Subject(s) - unconscious mind , psychology , behavioural genetics , behavioral syndrome , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , neuroscience , social psychology , psychoanalysis , personality
R ésumé In summerizing the foregoing discussions I feel we are beginning to form a methodology with which we can approach the genetic basis of human behavior. It is also felt that we should be able to uncover the genetically controlled behavioral traits under certain conditions. The behavior should be free from voluntary or noetic workings, which are connected to external stimuli or regulations. If this condition to be realized, heritable individual patterns of behavior could be observed. The heritable behavioral traits are of non‐voluntary, unconscious, undifferentiated, or autonomic character. I do not say we absolutely excluded possible modifying factors affecting the inborn individual patterns of behavior. Also I do not know the significance of these results and interpretations in the neurological sciences. But I frankly feel that the individual differences of functions of the central nervous system should be paid proper attention by neurological and behavioral scientists.