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THE EMOTIONAL BASIS OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Author(s) -
Scott J. P.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1969.tb12978.x
Subject(s) - citation , annals , state (computer science) , psychology , library science , computer science , art , classics , algorithm
What are the causes of social behavior? From a theoretical viewpoint, there must be many factors affecting such behavior, since factors are known to modify behavior on every level of organization, from the ecological to the molecular. It follows that any unifactorial theory of social behavior is inadequate, and that any complete explanation of behavior must include the interaction of factors from all levels of organization. Even if only one level of organization is examined at a time, the evidence in most cases indicates that several factors may be operating. When the above ideas are examined, it will be evident that they represent a structural or anatomical approach to the analysis of emotional phenomena. In other fields of psychobiology, and particularly in developmental psychobiology, a slow revolution in scientific thought is taking place as concepts of processes replace anatomical or structural concepts as methods of study. In this paper, I shall attempt to apply the concept of processes to the study of emotions and to relate it to the older structural concepts.