What Causes Human Behavior: Stars, Selves, or Contingencies?

What Causes Human Behavior - Stars, Selves, or Contingencies? is written for anyone concerned to understand human behavior in general, or in a wide range of particular areas such as family life and interpersonal relations, education and the workplace, and cultural life and international relations. The scientific understanding of these areas also extends to the part human behavior and its causes play in solving local and global problems such as global warming, pollution, resource depletion, overpopulation and, dare we say it, human survival. For several decades, concerned people around the world, including traditional natural scientists such as physicists, chemists and biologists, have worked to improve and expand solutions to serious and growing global problems. This has led them to point out that both problems and solutions to these issues involve a large component of human behavior.

Stephen F. Ledoux served as a Professor of Behaviorology at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Canton, NY for 33 years. His teaching and publishing in the field go back 45 years. Among his previous books you will find The Panda and Monkey King Christmas—A Family’s Year in China (1997), and Origins and Components of Behaviorology—Second Edition (2002), and Running Out of Time—Introducing Behaviorology to Help Solve Global Problems (2014), and Beautiful Sights and Sensations—Small Collections of Native American and Other Arts (2016). Stephen publishes and lectures nationally and internationally on the subject of understanding and applying Behaviorology to solving the human side of local and global problems. He lives in Los Alamos, NM, with his family and pets.