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Let the social sciences evolve
2014
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Humans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic science of intentional change centered on evolution; second, to provide examples of intentional behavioral and cultural change from the applied behavioral sciences, which are largely unknown to the basic sciences community. All species have evolved mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity that enable them to respond
doi:10.1017/s0140525x13003282
pmid:25162883
fatcat:sf4tzfr4dzavljhe7v5fi7b64q