Field studies of human societies and classic experiments on behavior and learning, including the anthropological fieldwork of the Trobriand, Samoa and Andaman Islands studies, and the Milgram and Pavlov experiments. An experiment belongs here when its cited article describes it as fieldwork or as a study of behavior. It excludes laboratory studies of heredity and microbes. Browse By lists these entries together so that a reader can move from one to the next and compare how each is described in the sources of the atlas.
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Wikipedia)
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The book is about the Trobriand people who live on the small Kiriwana island chain northeast of the island of New Guinea.
Coming of Age in Samoa (Wikipedia)
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based upon her research and study of youth
Milgram experiment (Wikipedia)
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was a series of social psychology experiments that were conducted in the early 1960s by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of
Classical conditioning (Wikipedia)
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Classical conditioning (also respondent conditioning and Pavlovian conditioning) is a behavioral procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus (e.g. food, a puff of air on the eye) is paired with a neutral stimulus (e.g. the sound of a musical triangle).
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