What is distinctive about psycho-functionalism is its claim that mental states and processes are just those entities, with just those properties, postulated by the best scientific explanation of human behavior.
But there is nothing more compelling than to catch, as they are happening, those moments in which, despite all best efforts, the realities of human behavior show through even the most successful makeup and lighting job.
These patterns and scores of others can best be understood as maps of human behavior, revealing ways in which investors act and react.
Alternatively, the argument may be construed as abductive (Harman 1999; cf. Doris 2002: 26): the variousness of human behavior is best explained by reference to the hypothesis that robust traits are rarely instantiated in human beings.
These assumptions, coupled with the assertion that human behaviors are the result of natural selection, makes it seem as though, as Ruth Bleier (1984, 15) puts it, "we had best resign ourselves to the more unsavory aspects of human behavior".
Early in the article, you point out that dogs are keen observers of human behavior — if not man's best friend, at least man's most penetrating analyst.
This basic fact nobody denies, but the attempt to apply it to generate testable theories of human behavior and human psychology has been at best partially successful.
Ms. Marin never pulls any punches, and at her best her work is as profoundly insightful about the absurdity and profundity of human behavior as a Beckett play.
Boucher never hesitated to put novels by the likes of Margaret Millar, Charlotte Armstrong, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Dorothy B. Hughes, and Celia Fremlin all included in this anthology on his best-of-the-year lists, praising their skillful plots, exemplary characterization, and incisive portraits of human behavior.
