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Behavioral Science—Management Science: A Behavioral View

Interfaces, 1972
A data-based, nonpolemic approach to the integration of the study of human behavior and management science ought to be feasible. Yet, the proponents and propagators of such behavioral terms as Theory Y, open-systems, encounter groups, Motivator-Hygiene variables, the Management Grid, and others have often exhibited more management than science.
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Terrorism and the Behavioral Sciences

Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2010
Terrorism has existed for millennia and is a phenomenon well-known to many parts of the world. Americans were forced to recognize this phenomenon, and our vulnerability to it, by two sets of events in 2001: the attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, and the anthrax mailings that followed shortly thereafter.
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Behavioral science and prevention

Preventive Medicine, 1976
Abstract The present paper explores three questions: 1. What can the behavioral sciences contribute to a general understanding of personal health behavior? 2. What techniques from the behavioral sciences can be used to change personal health behavior? 3.
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The Behavioral and Social Sciences

Science, 1980
In the social sciences, as in other sciences, progress is often paced by advances in observational techniques and instruments. This article reviews some of the recent technical progress in the social sciences and then discusses three substantive frontier areas that are particularly exciting at present: evolutionary theory, especially in relation to ...
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Medicine and the Behavioral Sciences

Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 1973
Medicine and the behavioral sciences are both concerned with the understanding and treatment of man. Consequently communication and co-operation between them are essential, so far as both the clients and the sciences are concerned. There are, however, various factors—ideological, practical, educational and semantic—which at present make such ...
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