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  2. Biosocial theory - Wikipedia

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    Biosocial theory is a theory in behavioral and social science that describes personality disorders and mental illnesses and disabilities as biologically-determined personality traits reacting to environmental stimuli. [1] [2] Biosocial theory also explains the shift from evolution to culture when it comes to gender and mate selection.

  3. Biosocial criminology - Wikipedia

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    Biosocial criminology is an interdisciplinary field that aims to explain crime and antisocial behavior by exploring biocultural factors. While contemporary criminology has been dominated by sociological theories, biosocial criminology also recognizes the potential contributions of fields such as behavioral genetics , neuropsychology , and ...

  4. Biopsychosocial model - Wikipedia

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    [48] [49] [50] Benning summarized the arguments against the model including that it lacked philosophical coherence, was insensitive to patients' subjective experience, was unfaithful to the general systems theory that Engel claimed it be rooted in, and that it engendered an undisciplined eclecticism that provides no safeguards against either ...

  5. Biological basis of personality - Wikipedia

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    Eysenck's three-factor model of personality was a causal theory of personality based on activation of reticular formation and limbic system. The reticular formation is a region in the brainstem that is involved in mediating arousal and consciousness. The limbic system is involved in mediating emotion, behavior, motivation, and long-term memory.

  6. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire - Wikipedia

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    Hans Eysenck's theory is based primarily on physiology and genetics. Although he was a behaviorist who considered learned habits of great importance, he believed that personality differences are determined by genetic inheritance. He is, therefore, primarily interested in temperament.

  7. Criminology - Wikipedia

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    Social disorganization theory postulates that neighborhoods plagued with poverty and economic deprivation tend to experience high rates of population turnover. [36] This theory suggests that crime and deviance is valued within groups in society, 'subcultures' or 'gangs'. These groups have different values to the social norm.

  8. Biosociology - Wikipedia

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    biosocial theory, a theory in behavioral and social science; sociobiology, a synthesis of scientific disciplines This page was last edited on 27 ...

  9. Gardner Murphy - Wikipedia

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    Murphy proposed the biosocial personality theory, in which personality is understood as both biological and social in nature. [7] At the center of the theory is the term "canalization." Murphy used "canalization" to indicate that human needs may be impacted or changed by what, when and how they are satisfied. [4]