Why Do Animals Fight?

Why do some fish fight more than others?

Reversible changes in how readily animals fight can be explained in terms of adaptive responses to differences in the costs and benefits of fighting. In contrast, long-term differences in aggressiveness raise a number of questions, including why animals are consistent with respect to this trait, why aggressiveness is often linked to general risk taking, and why aggressive and nonaggressive anim...

Legitimacy And Cooperation: Why Do People Help the Police Fight Crime in Their Communities?

231 Legitimacy and Cooperation : Why Do People Help the Police Fight Crime in Their Communities ?

Past research indicates that legitimacy encourages compliance with the law. This study extends consideration of the influence of legitimacy by exploring its impact on cooperation with the police and with neighbors to combat crime in one’s community. It uses a panel study design and focuses upon the residents of New York City. The study finds that legitimacy shapes cooperation with the police an...

The Asian Nuclear Medicine Board; Why Do We Need It?

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Why are animals cognitive?

to interpret the bird's behaviour quite differently: that it is the consequence of a complex web of associations, each association acquired according to principles well-understood from laboratory study of learning in the white rat. This sort of explanation is sometimes described as conditioning; 'behaviourism' is the philosophy that all learning is fundamentally of this associative nature, even...