Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This festschrift in honor of Daniel G. Freedman provides a uniquely personal view of cutting-edge "holistic" studies of human behavior. Freedman's pioneering ethological analyses encouraged naturalistic studies of evolved bases of behavior; his comparative view of behavior helped set the stage for current cross-cultural research.
Just as Freedman himself discusses the way his three masters -- Abraham Maslow, Kurt Goldstein, and Gregory Bateson -- contributed to his intellectual development, the scholars in this volume acknowledge Freedman's influence on this work in such areas as human behavioral genetics, developmental psycho-biology, cross-cultural observational research, and evolutionary psychology. Uniting each of the chapters is the conviction that psychology can benefit from an infusion of biological concepts and methods.