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Research Unit

BEHAVE Lab
Acronym
BEHAVE
Duration
15 July 2025 → Ongoing
Group leader
Research disciplines
  • 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
  • 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).