ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Neil J. Smelser, Paul B. Baltes, (2001), “International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences”, 26 v. Oxford: Elsevier.

Paul B. Baltes was a German national who studied psychology. The scientific agenda that he devoted himself to was the establishment and promotion of life-span orientation of human development. In this journal, the authors have identified various factors related to the human behavior. According to them, Behavioral health science is a set of disciplines that primarily concerned with understanding, prediction and control of human behavior, especially the types of behavior that develop in relationships. This broad category includes the disciplines framed within the behavioral sciences and others as law, economics, history and geography. The behavioral sciences applied to diagnose and predict human behavior, for example, in polls and surveys (political, market research, questionnaires and attitude tests), and psychological purposes, the study and aptitude testing, skill, ability and personality. In this, study the author does present the issues related to the development of aggressive behavior in humans. According to him, a human develop aggressive behavior when there is a situation that he assumes is wrong or against him, for example, in relationships, when a person feels that he being ignored or the attitude of his, or her partner is not what he had expected. The author has also presented the consequences of such behavior, in this study, which according to him can be severe.

David B. Dusenbery, (2009), “Living at Micro Scale: The Unexpected Physics of Being Small”, Harvard University Press.

In this study, the author has put his focus on human behavior, and how it differs from one another, also in different situations, as well. According to the author, The behavior of humans based on a set of behaviors that demonstrated by individuals plus determined by their respective cultures, the mental attitudes, the feelings, the individual esteems and cultural values, ethical codes, exercise of authority, the relationship, the mental condition, the conviction, the compulsion and / or genetics. According to the author, the behavior of an individual can become aggressive, if he faced with a situation where his cultural values, ethical codes, etc have been hurt. This also means that the aggressive behavior is because there are things happening, which are against his values, or against what he thinks. The behavior of humans from the beginning of its history has tried to study and understand that to try to exploit ...