Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior

Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Christopher Boehm. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.292 pp.     

Ethology and Primates: Some New Directions for the 1970s

Ethological Studies of Child Behaviour. N. Blurton Jones .
Social Communication and Movement: Studies of Interaction and Expression in Man and Chimpanzee. Mario Von Cranach and Ian Vine .
Primate Behavior and the Emergence of Human Culture. Jane Beckman Lancaster .
Precultural Primate Behavior. Emit W. Menzel, Jr .
Behavior of Nonhuman Primates: Modern Research Trends. Vol. IV. Allan M. Schrier and Fred Stollnitz .
Ethology and Psychiatry. Norman F. White .     

The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior

The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior. Craig B. Stanford. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999. 254 pp.     

Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior

Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. 394 pp.     

The Material Life of Human Beings: Artifacts, Behavior, and Communication

The Material Life of Human Beings: Artifacts, Behavior, and Communication. Michael Brian Schiffer with Andrea R. Miller. New York: Routledge, 1999. 158 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Introduction to Social Psychology. E. Llewellyn Queener.
The Development of Human Behavior. Richard Dewey and W. J. Humber.
Social Psychology. Solomon E. Asch.
Social Psychology: An Analysis of Human Behavior. Leonard W. Doob.
Social Psychology. Robert E. L. Faris.
Fundamentals of Social Psychology. Eugene L. and Ruth E. Hartley.
Readings in Social Psychology. Prepared for the Committee on the Teaching of Social Psychology of The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Revised Edition. Editorial Committee: Guy E. Swanson, Theodore M. Newcomb, Eugene L. Hartley, and others.     

Psychological evaluation of young women after medical treatment for central precocious puberty

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed at the evaluation of the subjective experience and long-term behavioral and psychological effects of precocious puberty (PP). METHODS: 19 female patients who had been treated with GnRH agonists participated in a semistructured interview and completed two standardized checklists. Their parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). RESULTS: The CBCL yielded significantly elevated Internalizing and Total Behavior Problem scores. An elevated risk was found for patients with short adult stature and a relatively late onset of PP. The latter tended to neuroticism, to accentuation of their physical appearance, and felt significantly more insecure than age-related non-PP girls. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that PP can lead to specific behavioral problems, and that patients with a risk factor may need psychosocial support.     

Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior fro the Human Skeleton

Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior fro the Human Skeleton. Clark Spencer Larsen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 461 pp.     

A critical evaluation of subjective ratings： Unacquainted observers can reliably assess certain personality traits

Methods to measure consistent individual differences in behavior （i.e. animal personality） fall into two categories, subjective ratings and behavioral codings. Ratings are seldom used despite being potentially more efficient than codings. One potential limitation for the use of ratings is that it is assumed that long-term observers or experts in the field are required to score individuals. This can be problematic in many cases, especially for long-term ecological studies where there is high turnover in personnel. We tested whether raters who were unacquainted with subjects could produce reliable and valid personality assessments of yellow-bellied marmots Marmota flaviventris. Two raters, previously unacquainted with individuals and marmot be- havior, scored 130 subjects on fifteen different adjectives in both open-field （OF） and mirror image stimulation （MIS） trials. Eight OF and nine MIS adjectives were reliable as indicated by both a high degree of intra-observer and inter-observer reliability. Additionally, some ratings were externally valid, correlating with behavioral codings. Our data suggest that activity/exploration and sociability can be a reliable and valid measurement of personality traits in studies where raters were unacquainted with subjects. These traits are observable with the personality tests we used; otherwise researchers using unacquainted raters should be cautious in the tests they employ [Current Zoology 60 （2）： 162-169, 2014].     

Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior

Why Sex Matters:. Darwinian Look at Human Behavior. Bobbi S. Low. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 412 pp.     

The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation from Natural History

The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation from Natural History. Russell L. Ciochon and Richard A. Nisbett. eds. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. 246 pp.     

Romantic Love and Sexual Behavior: Perspectives from the Social Sciences

Romantic Love and Sexual Behavior: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. Victor C. De Munck. ed. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.312 pp.     

Delayed Response after Learning Associated with Oviposition Experience in the Larval Parasitoid,Cotesia kariyai (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Journal of Insect Behavior - The ability of female parasitoid wasps, Cotesia kariyai (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), to learn to recognize plant volatiles associated with an oviposition experience was...     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
G entry , R. L. 1998. Behavior and ecology of the Northern fur seal .     

Assessment of Variation in Feeding Behavior by Color Morph in the Asian citrus Psyllid (Diaphorina citri)

Journal of Insect Behavior - The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera:Liviidae), vector of huanglongbing disease, displays a high degree of color polyphenism. In the adult stage,...     

Mapping the Perverse

The Geography of Perversion: Male-to-Male Sexual Behavior outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918. Rudi C. Bleys.
Sex and Conquest: Gender Construction and Political Order at the Time of the European Conquest of the Americas. Richard C. Trexler     

An authoritative reference

A review of "Deer of the World: Their Evolution, Behavior, and Ecology," by Valerius Geist. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1998, 421 pp., $60.00, hardbound.     

Mating frequency of female false codling moth,Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): trade-off between fecundity and longevity

Journal of Insect Behavior - Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) is a polyphagous insect pest native to sub-Saharan Africa. The larvae burrow into the fruit and...     

Egoism and altruism

Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior by E. Sober and D.S. Wilson Harvard University Press, 1998. $19.95 hbk (394 pages) ISBN 0 674 93046 0.     

Hormones, Health, and Behavior: A Socio-Ecological and Lifespan Perspective

Hormones, Health, and Behavior:. Socio-Ecological and Lifespan Perspective. C. Panter-Brick and C. M. Worthman. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 290 pp.