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Human ethology is the study of human behavior. Ethology as a discipline is generally thought of as a sub-category of biology, though psychological theories have been developed based on ethological ideas (e.g. sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, attachment theory, and theories about human universals such as gender differences, incest avoidance, mourning, hierarchy and pursuit of possession).
Ethology is a branch of zoology that studies the behaviour of non-human animals. It has its scientific roots in the work of Charles Darwin and of American and German ornithologists of the late 19th and early 20th century, including Charles O. Whitman , Oskar Heinroth , and Wallace Craig .
This concept forms the foundation of ethological research. [37] [39] However, Richard Dawkins called Lorenz a "'good of the species' man", [40] stating that the idea of group selection was "so deeply ingrained" [40] in Lorenz's thinking that he "evidently did not realize that his statements contravened orthodox Darwinian theory." [40]
Just war theory (11 P) M. Moral relativism (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Ethical theories" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total.
Attachment theory, originating in the work of John Bowlby, is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory that provides a descriptive and explanatory framework for understanding interpersonal relationships between human beings.
Attachment theory is a psychological and evolutionary framework, ... [146] [147] Schur, discussing Bowlby's use of ethological concepts (pre-1960) ...
Fordham drew a parallel between some of Lorenz's ethological observations on the hierarchical behaviour of wolves and the functioning of archetypes in infancy. [5] Anthony Stevens suggests that ethology and analytical psychology are both disciplines trying to comprehend universal phenomena. [48]
Compared to ethnography, the study of single groups through direct contact with the culture, ethnology takes the research that ethnographers have compiled and then compares and contrasts different cultures.