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Background
Behavioral science is the study of behavior developed in a formal way in the 19th century. The
causes of premature death and disability were changing during 20th century, because of this the behavioral
factors that influence these changes take an added importance. Behavioral science developed through
technological innovation, migration and civil strife. The term “behavioral science” began to be frequently
used United States in the early 1950s. The new field of the behavioral science can be considered as one of
the most important intellectual inventions of the twentieth century.
Behavioral science includes two broad categories namely neural or information processing
sciences and social or relational sciences.
Relational sciences include fields like sociological social psychology, social networks, dynamic
network analysis, agent-based model and microsimulation. It deals with relationships, interaction,
communication networks, associations and relational strategies or dynamics between organisms or
cognitive entities in a social system.
https://www.slideshare.net/ahsyed1/history-of-behavior-sciences-15701302
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_sciences
http://glasnost.itcarlow.ie/~garveya/introduction_to_behavioural_science.pdf