BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Behavioral Sciences is a field of study that primarily concern the understanding,

prediction, and control of behavior.

It is more focused on human behavior that develop out of interpersonal relations.

Although many disciplines contribute to the science of behavior, a number of them are so overwhelmingly concerned with past or present behavior that they can be classed together as the behavioral sciences.

These disciplines include:

Anthropology Education Political science Psychiatry, Psychology Sociology

Investigators who work in these areas systematically and experimentally focus their attention on human behavior as it influences and is influenced by the behavior and needs of other people.

The connection between Social Science and Behavioral Science

The social sciences study the functioning andinstitutions of human society. This is a broadercategory of disciplines which includes thebehavioral sciences.

Such disciplines are:

• Economics• Law• History• Geography

The use of behavioral science application

A major application of behavioral science has been in the prediction of human behavior.

Examples :• polling and testing (political and marketing

surveys, questionnaires, attitude tests)• psychological and industrial (tests of aptitude,

ability, achievement, and personality)

Categories of behavioral sciences

Behavioural sciences includes two broad categories:

1.neural-decision sciences 2.social-communication

sciences

Decision SciencesDecision sciences involves those disciplines primarily dealing with the decision processes and individual functioning used in the survival of organism in a social environment.

This includes:

1. Psychology2. cognitive science3. organization theory, 4. psychobiology, 5. management science, 6. operations research (not to be confused with

business administration) 7. social neuroscience.

Communication sciencesCommunication sciences include those fields which study the communication strategies used by organisms and its dynamics between organisms in an environment

These fields are: 1. anthropology2. organizational behaviour3. organization studies4. sociology5. social networks.