Acronym
BEHAVE
Duration
15 July 2025 → Ongoing
Faculties
Group leader
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Statistical data science
- Biostatistics, statistical methodology in epidemiology and public health
- Statistical methodology in social, behavioural and educational sciences
- behavioural ecology
- Biology of adaptation
- Biology of behaviour
- Genetic predisposition
- Population, ecological and evolutionary genetics
- Quantitative genetics
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Social sciences
- Biological psychology
- Genetics and behaviour
- Evolutionary psychology
- Social behaviour and social action
- Causes and prevention of crime
- Criminography and methods of criminological investigation
- Criminological theories
- Youth and life course criminology
- Group and interpersonal relations
- Social behaviour and social action
- Social stratification not elsewhere classified
- Generations and intergenerational relations
- Socialisation
- Sociology of child, adolescence and youth
- Biological (physical) anthropology
- Other anthropology not elsewhere classified
Keywords
Sociobiology
Moral emotions
Evolutionary social sciences
Morality
Antisocial behavior
Description
The 'Behave Lab' studies variability in social and antisocial behaviour from bio-cultural and ecological evolutionary perspectives. The goal is to study human variation in antisocial behavior at the intersection of several complementary disciplines. The starting point is the idea that a more complete picture is obtained by simultaneously addressing the four major research questions (as described by Tinbergen) of behavior: (1) mechanisms, (2) ontological development, (3) phylogeny, and (4) evolution (biological and cultural).