Antisocial behaviours from a primal health research perspective.

As human beings we are endowed with gregarious tendencies. Like most other primates we need to live in groups. Since we are also endowed with the capacity to communicate in sophisticated ways, particularly through language, we create cultural milieus. Cultural milieus prescribe and proscribe behaviour, that is, what people should do and should not do given their social surroundings and circumstances. We establish norms, with at least some degree of consensus, that are enforced through social sanctions.