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Natural, Behavioral and Cultural Selection/Analysis: An Integrative Approach

Couto, Kalliu; Sandaker, Ingunn
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https://hdl.handle.net/10642/4885
Date
2016
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Couto K, Sandaker I. Natural, Behavioral and Cultural Selection/Analysis: An Integrative Approach. Norsk Tidsskrift for Atferdsanalyse. 2016;43(1):27-33  
Abstract
In

Selection by Consequences, Skinner

(1981) described a causal model that explains

human

behavior as a joint product of three

levels of selection: (i) the contingencies of

survival involved in natural selection, (ii)

the contingencies of reinforcement involved

in the selection of individual behavior, and

(iii) contingencies of an evolving social

environment. Since then, researchers from

behavior analysis and other fields such as

biology and anthropology have used an

evolutionist/selectionist approach to greatly

improve our understanding of those three

levels of analysis. As our knowledge of each

level has expanded, the borders between them

and their belonging to specialized academic

domains has become less clear. Even though

Skinner (1981, p 502) stated that “each

level of variation and selection has its own

discipline – the first, biology; the second,

psychology; and the third anthropology”,

we argue that

Selection by Consequences

sets

a milieu for behavior analysis to take part in

the analysis of the integrated relation among

all levels of analysis. In this commentary to

Skinner’s (1981) paper, we aim to point out

some advances in behavior analysis that may

contribute to bridging the gap between the

three levels of analysis described by Skinner.

In doing so, we will briefly describe some

relations between natural and behavioral

selection and between behavioral and cultural

selection. Additionally, we discuss an alternative model to analyze selection of cultures.
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Norsk atferdsanalytisk forening

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