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The Social Matrix of Behavior

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Philosophy of Psychology

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Humans and their behavior exist in a social context. Without a nervous system there is no human behavior, and there is none without society either. It has been said that an isolated chimpanzee is not a real chimpanzee, and the same can be said of human beings.

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Bunge, M., Ardila, R. (1987). The Social Matrix of Behavior. In: Philosophy of Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4696-1_10

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