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"This lack of success may be explained by the fact that the basic parameters of these models are not as constant in the social sciences as in biological applications. One reason for the lack of success in applying epidemic models to the spread of ideas may be that the mutation rate, the rate of transmission errors, is much higher for ideas than for disease or other biological processes. Many of us recall the children's game of telephone, in which the first person selects a simple story and whispers it into the ear of the second person, who then whispers it into the ear of the third, and so on." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and social sciences, 2004 July, 59(4):168-176. Researchers concluded that daily positive emotions, including humor coping skills, were critical in reducing stress after conjugal loss. Hypericum Treatment of Mild Depression with Somatic Symptoms. Hubner WD; et al. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 1994 October, 7(Suppl):l-S12-14. In this randomized, double-blind study, placebo-controlled study, 300 mg of the hyperium extract LI 160 was administered to depression patients three times daily for four weeks." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"To our delight, there are repeated tidal surges of other fascinating research from the social sciences, medicine, and the physical sciences on the overall health benefits of positive affect. Most of these studies weren't available when we began our trek into the world of happiness, and it's all happening so quickly, we expect new research to emerge between the time we finish writing this book and its publication. This data is revolutionizing our modern definition of health, while it brings about unanticipated changes in medical practice." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"And while Hegel's influence faded in the second half of the nineteenth century, his prescient understanding of the dialectical structure of history began to be validated during the twentieth century through research in the social sciences, and especially in the field of developmental psychology. Developmental psychology serves as an important foundation of integral philosophy because it discloses the stage-wise development of all historically significant worldview structures. That is, the structures that organize consciousness are directly related to the stages of human history." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"The article concluded that "medical schools should include information about unconventional therapies and the clinical social sciences (anthropology and sociology) in their cur-riculums. The newly established National Institutes of Health Office for the Study of Unconventional Medical Practices should help promote scholarly research and education in this area." British and Canadian doctors are also facing growing pressure from alternative medicine, as C." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Recent books promoting psychiatric and behavior genetic research, such as Jang's (2005) The Behavior Genetics of Psychopathology, and Carey's (2003) Human Genetics for the social sciences, provide little in the way of new arguments in support of the EEA. 2. Kendler, 1983, pp. 1413-1414. 3. Ibid., p. 1414. 4. Ibid., p. 1414. Two "Competing Hypotheses" Discussed by Kendler Hypothesis #1 (Critics) The greater behavioral resemblance and greater concordance for psycho-pathology of identical vs." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"The Key Is Dynamic Interaction Historically, systems theory, including general systems theory (Von Bertalanffy,1968) and living systems theory (Miller, 1978), was developed as a conceptual tool to organize and integrate knowledge within and across disciplines, from the physical and biological sciences to the behavioral and social sciences (Schwartz, 1982; 1984; 1987; 1989)." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"A "structuralist" is defined as a theorist working within the social sciences who examines the internal structures of consciousness and/or culture from a third-person perspective. Wilber writes that one of the advantages of a structuralist approach to consciousness is that it discloses aspects of a person's interiors from an outside perspective, which reveals forms of consciousness that cannot really be seen from "the inside," from a first-person perspective." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "This is similar to how the structure of DNA was originally recognized: We can observe bits and pieces of the structure from the research of the social sciences; all we have to do now is envision an overall structure that fits the observable data and that makes sense within the larger scheme of evolution. And just like with the structure of DNA, once we have a good idea of what the internal organization of the mind looks like, we can then design specific tests to confirm or refute this postulated structure." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Medicalization also has gained attention beyond the social sciences. Numerous articles may be identified in a Medline search (of the medical literature), but of particular interest are the British Medical Journal (2002) special issue devoted to medicalization and an issue of PLoS Medicine (2006) largely devoted to "disease mon-gering." In 2003 the President's Council on Bioethics dedicated an entire session to examining medicalization (Kass et al., 2003)." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"Because Wilber transcends the limitations of the social sciences and approaches the structures of the mind from a broader philosophical perspective, it is worth examining his ideas in some detail. Withers Theory of the Lines of Development In some of his most recent writing, Wilber has gone to great lengths to justify the accuracy and legitimacy of his account of the structures of consciousness. Wilber maintains that his understanding of these structures has been informed by the investigations of the academic researchers he calls "adequate structuralists." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Today, the usual list of social sciences includes anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology. In addition, some view history as a social science. In this section, we have grouped together entries drawn from three social sciences: anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Sociology concerns itself with the behavior of humans in groups, with social relationships, social classes, social movements, and organizations." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) "Some subdivisions of psychology have far more in common with natural sciences such as biology and chemistry than with the social sciences. For example, physiological psychologists study the role of the brain, glands, and other organs in mental processes, and often experiment on animals, especially rats, rather than humans. Many other subdivisions of psychology, however, resemble the social sciences. For example, social psychologists investigate the role of the family and the peer group in the mental development of the individual." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) "Today, the usual list of social sciences includes anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology. In addition, some view history as a social science. In this section, we have grouped together entries drawn from three social sciences: anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Sociology concerns itself with the behavior of humans in groups, with social relationships, social classes, social movements, and organizations." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"Socio-economic characteristics of an Amazon urban healers clientele. social sciences and Medicine 15B:51-63. -. 1989. A modern-day shamanistic healer in the Peruvian Amazon: Pharmacopoeia and trance. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 21 (1): 91-99. -. 1992. Amazon healer: The life and times of an urban shaman. Bridport, Dorset: Prism Press. -. 1994. Drug tourism in the Amazon. Anthropology of Consciousness 5 (1): 16-19. -. 1995. Drug tourism in the Amazon. Yearbook for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness 3 (1994): 307-14. Berlin: VWB. -. 1996." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"At best, history is classified among the social sciences, of which it rates as the least scientific. While the field of government is often termed "political science" and the Nobel Prize in economics refers to "economic science," history departments rarely if ever label themselves "Department of Historical Science." Most historians do not think of themselves as scientists and receive little training in acknowledged sciences and their methodologies." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"Most branches of knowledge (such as physics, biology, and the social sciences) are highly specialized studies of questions that were originally discussed by philosophers. Today, philosophers continue to debate the basic assumptions that make these specialized studies possible. Philosophy also considers how different branches of knowledge ought to relate to a question, when they seem to overlap and conflict with one another. For example, bioethks (a branch of philosophy) asks whether a problem, such as euthanasia, should be a matter of medical science, of individual rights, or of government." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Psychology is intimately related to the biological and social sciences. There are five main branches of psychological study: Biopsychology examines the biological foundations of behavior and mental processes, or the interconnect between the body and the mind." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Today, the usual list of social sciences includes economics, political science, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. In addition, some view history as a social science. In this section, we have grouped together entries drawn from three social sciences: anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Sociology concerns itself with the behavior of humans in groups, with social relationships, social classes, social movements, and organizations." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.) "Some subdivisions of psychology have far more 390 in common with natural sciences such as biology and chemistry than with the social sciences. For example, physiological psychologists study the role of the brain, glands, and other organs in mental processes, and often experiment on animals, especially rats, rather than humans. Many other subdivisions of psychology, however, resemble the social sciences. For example, social psychologists investigate the role of the family and the peer group in the mental development of the individual." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"In the 20th century, applied methods of statistical inference ("confidence intervals" and other techniques) have been highly developed and widely applied, through computer programs, in the sciences, engineering, and social sciences. There have also been dramatic advances in the ancient science of geometry, such as the development of fractal geometry, in which patterns of smaller parts (such as a coastline seen very close up) relate in complex ways to the whole seen at a distance." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Indeed, I would like to ask them to make a personal contribution: our aim is to make gastronomy a proper science, which will have to face the same difficulties of approach as, for example, the social sciences (the problem is epistemological), but which has all the prerequisites to become a subject of study at the university level and of research at even higher levels. Any discipline, if it does not remain closed within its own specialization, can lend some assistance to gastronomic science. Besides, to say "gastronomic science" is rather like saying "the science of happiness." - Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair (Get the book.)

"Some subdivisions of psychology have far more in common with natural sciences such as biology and chemistry than with the social sciences. For example, physiological psychologists study the role of the brain, glands, and other organs in mental processes, and often experiment on animals, especially rats, rather than humans. Many other subdivisions of psychology, however, resemble the social sciences. For example, social psychologists investigate the role of the family and the peer group in the mental development of the individual." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

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