Individual choices often depend on the order in which the decisions are made. In this paper, we expose a general theory of measurable systems (an example of which is an individual’s preferences) allowing for incompatible (non-commuting) measurements. The basic concepts are illustrated in an example of non-classical rational choice. We conclude with a discussion of some of the basic properties o...

Esta obra está licenciada sob uma Licença Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional. 1 Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. 2 Departments of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham VAMC, Durham, NC,...

Social and behavioral research in public health is often intimately tied to profound, but frequently neglected, biological influences from underlying genetic, environmental, and epigenetic events. The dynamic interplay between the life, social, and behavioral sciences often remains underappreciated and underutilized in addressing complex diseases and disorders and in developing effective remedi...

Reza Chaman, Pooneh Zolfaghari1, Mohammad-Bagher Sohrabi2, Mahshid Gholami Taramsari3, Ahmad Khosravi4 Center for Health Related Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, 1Deputy of Public Health, 2Imam Hossein Hospital, 3School of Medicine, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, 4Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sc...

I t is a privilege and an honor to speak with the scientific community about the need to integrate the behavioral and social sciences with the biomedical sciences and how this relates to the mission of the American Heart Association. My observations and thoughts are influenced by my experiences as a nurse researcher and behavioral scientist at Johns Hopkins, where I have been involved in a rese...

The gap between scientific knowledge and real world practice continues to be a major conundrum for the behavioral sciences. This paper briefly reviews the development of behavioral research and describes problems that have arisen in meeting the goal of improving behavioral interventions through science. Based on published literature and personal observations, the authors argue that behavioral r...

The research blog has become a popular mechanism for the quick discussion of scholarly information. However, unlike peer-reviewed journals, the characteristics of this form of scientific discourse are not well understood, for example in terms of the spread of blogger levels of education, gender and institutional affiliations. In this paper we fill this gap by analyzing a sample of blog posts di...

Accumulating evidence from behavioral genetics suggests that the vast majority of individual-level outcomes of abiding sociological interest are genetically influenced to a substantial degree. This raises the question of the place of genetics in social science explanations. Genomic causation is described from a counterfactualist perspective, which makes its complexity plain and highlights the d...

Evolutionary theory has been restricted to the biological sciences and avoided for most human-related subjects for most of the 20 century. This situation is rapidly changing, resulting in a mismatch between current research and the structure of higher education. Using the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences as a microcosm, I show that a large fraction of target articles are written from an ev...