Tag Archives: Behavioral science

Behavioral science majors explore and analyze how human actions affect relationships and decision making. While behavioral science majors traditionally applied their skills in social work and counseling careers, recent graduates have found high demand for their skills in the business world as companies strive to uncover new ways to overcome their competitors.

Behavioral science incorporates many disciplines from two broad fields. Neural-decision sciences analyze how our decisions and anatomy interact. Social-communication sciences investigate the impact of language and communication on our society, our relationships, and on ourselves. Behavioral science college majors often specialize in one of the following subject areas

Difference between behavioural sciences and social sciences

The term behavioural sciences is often confused with the term social sciences. Though these two broad areas are interrelated and study systematic processes of behaviour, they differ on their level of scientific analysis of various dimensions of behaviour.

Behavioural sciences abstract empirical data to investigate the decision processes and communication strategies within and between organisms in a social system. This involves fields like psychology and social neuroscience (psychiatry), and genetics among others.

In contrast, social sciences provide a perceptive framework to study the processes of a social system through impacts of social organization on structural adjustment of the individual and of groups. They typically include fields like sociology, economics, history, counselling, public health, anthropology, and political science (E. D. Klemke, R. Hollinger and A. D. Kline, eds., 1988).

Books introduce:Behavioral Sciences & the Law

Current Issue
Volume 28 Issue 2 (March/April 2010)
Special Issue: International Perspectives on Psychopathy, An Update
Issue Edited by Alan R. Felthous, Henning Sass

Current Issue
Volume 28 Issue 2 (March/April 2010)
Special Issue: International Perspectives on Psychopathy, An Update
Issue Edited by Alan R. Felthous, Henning Sass

Special Issue Papers

Psychopathy – an approach to neuroscientific research in forensic psychiatry (p 129-147)
Jürgen L. Müller
Published Online: Mar 24 2010 7:46AM
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.926