The effect of the law on human behavior is contemporary society nothing less is the concern of this important book. It is curious that scholars in psychology and law have largely neglected this topic because studies of the effects of law on behavior may have much to teach about the role of social regulation in human motivation more generally. Similarly, such studies may offer jurisprudential scholars new ways of thinking about the role of law in human experience.Here seven leading experts on law and the social sciences discuss the contributions their research c an make to the legal system....

Gender, an important concept in psychology, is brought into sharp focus in the 1984 Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, which presents important new findings in eight papers, four dealing with sex differences and four with gender as a variable.

The papers on sex differences with Ann Anastasi's "Reciprocal Relations between Cognitive and Affective Development with Implications for Sex Differences," in which the author relates aptitudes aboutthe sex appropriateness of behaviors to attitudes and task performance. The effects of prenatal sex hormones on gender identity and gender-rolebehavior are...

The study of animal behavior throws light on everything said to be natural: social and family relations, mating, communication, and learning. Comparative Perspectives in Modern Psychology illustrates that human behavior is best understood through a method of comparative psychology, based on evolutionary theory that views behavior as the result of the complex interplay of genetics and environment.

Contents include: The Comparative Psychology of Monogamy by Donald A. Dewsbury; Coming to Terms with the Everyday Language of Comparative Psychology by Meredith J. West and Andrew P. King;...