What Causes Human Behavior—Stars, Selves, or Contingencies?

ISBN 978-1-927744-14-7 [Softcover Edition]. With human behavior helping cause global (and individual and local) problems, and changes in human behavior helping solve these problems, we all benefit from knowing more about the principles, concepts, practices, extensions, interpretations, implications, and applications of the natural science of human behavior. This general–audience primer covers these topics so that we can all know this science better and thus help contribute to solving problems. The book includes some scientific answers to some long-standing human questions about values, rights, ethics, morals, language, consciousness, personhood, life, death, reality, and even the more recent topic of robotics. Examples cover topics like genes, fictitious causes, boredom, energy, concept formation, ghosts, love, helping friends, olympic rats, musical skills, children’s hearing, gambling, superstition, bribery, nutrition, smoking therapy, and green engineering. (Visit www.behaviorology.org, which does not sell books, for a more detailed description including the actual Table of Contents.)