Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity Liza R. Moscovice *, Anthony Di Fiore , Catherine Crockford , Dawn M. Kitchen , Roman Wittig , Robert M. Seyfarth , Dorothy L. Cheney f Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, NY, U.S.A. Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY, U.S.A. c School of Psycholog...

it is tried, in this article to introduce the field of cultural anthropology, which is a decipline of social science and its contribution behavioral science, through: comparative studies of values and behaviors, mutual interactions of cultures in organizations, organizational culture and environment, and its application in managing organizational behavior. the difficulties of determination and ...

in structural time seriesregression models, binary (classic) dummy variables are used to quantify the effects of economic structural breaks, changes or qualitative variables. the binary dummy variable can be challenged using this dummy variable in which 0 or 1 represent absence or presence of structural breaks(or changes), but presence of the structural breaks(or changes) may not have uniform e...

Using social dominance theory and structural balance theory to analyze the political and psychological perspectives of subordinated peoples, we argue that struggles between dominant and subordinated polities are embedded in layered power structures. In such contexts, it is important to examine publics’ political desires and interests in relation to their political elites’ positions or choices o...

In her article Julie Hepworth discusses the definition of critical health psychology and its position within the field of health psychology. We understand that she is inclined to favour a position of critical health psychology that is separate from and in opposition to mainstream health psychology. In contrast to this, we are convinced that the important concerns of critical health psychology a...

gaining knowledge of the different existential aspects of human being counts among some the most important issues in psychology (‘ilm al-nafs) and anthropology. in this respect, philosophers in philosophical psychology or knowledge of the self have discussed the different degrees of soul and its faculties, whereas ancient philosophers used to deal with such issues in discussions over natural sc...

Addressing integrative possibilities between psychology and anthropology, this paper aims to design conceptual linkages between semiotic-cultural constructivist psychology and the anthropological theory of Amerindian perspectivism. From the psychological view, it is the interdependence between the structural and processual dimensions of the personal culture that makes parallels with Amerindian ...