What Causes Human Behavior: Stars, Selves, or Contingencies? - Softcover

...is a strong, noncompromising, theoretical and philosophical argument that the answers come from behaviorology, the natural science of behavior, that the answers do not come from astrology, theology, etc., or from psychology, the mentalistic unnatural science of the mind... -- Dr. Richard Malott, Ph.D. "Behavior Analyst, Professor, Western Michigan University, and author of several best selling books"

Although the book is primarily written to elucidate human behavior, the laws and principles of behavior are used not only by behaviorologists but also by animal behavior technologists who study the behavior of nonhumans. Dr. Ledoux has presented a complex discipline in an accessible format that is reinforcing to read and introduces a natural... -- James O'Heare ," author of Aggressive Behavior in Dogs and several other best selling books"

In the prevailing academic order for the 21st-century society, the complex subject of the behavior of organisms, particularly regarding the causes and effects of human behavior, is controlled by the explanatory myths that are inherent to psychology. This book presents a threat to that prevailing academic order... -- Michael Rauseo, Psy.D. "(Faculty, Los Angeles Unified School District)"

What Causes Human Behavior—Stars, Selves, or Contingencies? is written for anyone concerned to understand human behavior in general, or in a wide range of particular areas such as family life and interpersonal relations, education and the workplace, and cultural life and international relations. The scientific understanding of these areas also extends to the part human behavior and its causes play in solving local and global problems such as global warming, pollution, resource depletion, overpopulation and, dare we say it, human survival. For several decades, concerned people around the world, including traditional natural scientists such as physicists, chemists and biologists, have worked to improve and expand solutions to serious and growing global problems. This has led them to point out that both problems and solutions to these issues involve a large component of human behavior. Scientists are now realizing that making significant changes to human behavior, at all levels of society, to help solve such problems, requires that the natural science of human behavior—Behaviorology—be understood and applied to make truly lasting improvements.