Talk:Behavioural sciences

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Animal rights, behavioural scientists
I am wondering if any behavioural scientists would be interested in helping the scientific aspects of animal rights. The article overly emphasis the political and ethical aspects of animal rights. Scientific content is under represented. Although there are several scientific journals on the topic, such as those in anthrozoology. I proposed following relevant additions to the articles
 * 1) more surveys of different group's opinions of animal rights issues.
 * 2) neurological study of inter-species compassion. There are major studies on this, see Mirror neuron.
 * 3) evolutionary study of altruist behaviours in humans. Altruist behaviours are not all about humans. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism#Evolutionary_explanations
 * 4) other great apes, humans' closest living relatives, and their similarity with humans. see Great ape personhood

SSZvH7N5n8 (talk) 05:59, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Anthropology Contradiction
The section "Difference between behavioural sciences and social sciences" sets social sciences apart from behavioural sciences, and lists Anthropology as an example of the former. In the subsequent section "Categories of behavioural sciences", Anthropology is listed as part of the sub-category of the Behavioural Science called Communication Sciences. Contradiction? Zalmoxe (talk) 22:19, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Also, shouldn't this be behavioral sciences (no "U") —Preceding unsigned comment added by JimisDose (talk • contribs) 17:36, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Original research
The Behavioural sciences section seems dubious to me. There are no sources, and some of the choices for where to include fields and how to categorize them appear dubious. Is there any supporting evidence for it? DarwinPeacock (talk) 17:02, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Invitation to editors to vote/discuss definition of science in Talk:Science
There has been an extensive discussion on the Talk:Science of what the lead definition of the science article should be. I suspect this might be an issue that may be of interest to the editors of this page. If so, please come to the voting section of the talk science page to vote and express your views. Thank you. mezzaninelounge (talk) 18:31, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

What about Biology?
I was wondering why biology or specific sub-fields in biology, are not ranked under behavioral sciences? In a broader sense biology studies structure and behavior, right? For example, here are some excerpts from the Biology Wiki page,

"Cell biology studies the structural and physiological properties of cells, including their behaviors, interactions, and environment." "The theme of "structure to function" is central to biology" "Physiology studies how for example nervous, immune, endocrine, respiratory, and circulatory systems, function and interact. The study of these systems is shared with medically oriented disciplines such as neurology and immunology."

Here is the definition of 'behavior' from the Wiki page on Behavior,

"Behavior or behaviour (see American and British spelling differences) refers to the actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with their environment,..."

This would mean any science that studies "actions and mannerisms made by organisms", would be a behavioral science. Would be pleased if you guys consider that a significant portion of biology falls under behavioral science. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.226.207.176 (talk) 18:58, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Behavior/Behaviour
Why is this page using the British spelling instead of the American spelling? All of the ref books don't use the "u", and likewise with behavior and human behavior (but not for consumer behaviour). If it is important, surely it's worth including in the article, no? If it's not, we should change it back to its common name and spelling. czar  &middot;   &middot;  17:38, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi czar   &middot;   &middot;  ! Articles in Wikipedia can be either written using the English spelling or the American one - doesn't matter which one as long as it is the same throughout the article. As can be seen from the title of this article, this very article uses English spelling. With friendly regards,   Lova Falk     talk   08:22, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I know the inner article MOS conventions—I was referring to the article's title and WP titling conventions. czar   &middot;   &middot;  18:41, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Sociology
The opening of this article is misleading. It lists disciplines that can be called examples of "Behavioural science" but does not include Sociology - yet, I have always understood that psychology, anthropology and sociology are the three main behavioural sciences. Vorbee (talk) 16:53, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

behavioral sciences is often confused with the term social sciences
Is this really true? Is there any reason for three paragraphs about this? Maybe we can delete this section Volunteer1234 (talk) 01:52, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

confused sentence in the first paragraph
End of introductory paragraph reads ″Generally, behavioral science primarily has shown how human action often seeks to generalize about human behavior as it relates to society and its impact on society as a whole.″ Since no ″human action″ except thinking can ″seek to generalize″ about anything, this sentence needs to be made meaningful or be deleted. jb (talk) 13:18, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ — LumonRedacts 03:28, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 2 September 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 11:01, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Behavioural sciences → Behavioral sciences – Disambiguation of current spelling 'Behavioural sciences' (British English) with spelling used in the entirety of the page 'Behavioral sciences' (American English). While the current British English spelling the page additionally the Behavioural sciences category should match the American English spelling to solve all disambiguation issues, matching the common spelling used for many links directed to this article page along with all other spellings of 'Behavior' and 'Behavioral' throughout Wikipedia (en) encompassing sciences, philosophy and psychology topics. hcor (talk) 15:15, 2 September 2021 (UTC) hcor (talk) 15:15, 2 September 2021 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose per WP:ENGVAR: The current spelling within the article is the result of relatively recent pushing of American spelling into a British-spelled article that was tagged as EngvarB with September 2016 without discussion and without proper edit summaries – indeed, mostly without any edit summaries at all. See this and this and this and this and this. The EngvarB tag was removed without explanation on 14 February 2020. Looking back at snapshots of much older versions, what I see is British spelling. The article content should be reverted to British spelling. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 01:55, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose per ENGVAR and above. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:02, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Article should be restored to UK spelling as per policy at ENGVAR. Andrewa (talk) 02:24, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: ANTH 193 - Behavioral Science in Practice
— Assignment last updated by Dkhora (talk) 19:38, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

What's the relationship of Behavioural Sciences to Behaviorism and Behavioralism?
Any clues? Thedonquixotic (talk) 00:53, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Future of behavioral science
The future of behavioral science section in the behavioral science article contains a garden path sentence in the first sentence. I am not sure what the original writer was intending to convey. 91.235.65.114 (talk) 13:18, 25 June 2024 (UTC)