"Human Nature Review is a significant source of analysis and commentary for readers at leading universities and research institutes in over one hundred and sixty countries and is one of the most popular sites on the whole world wide web. Our goal is to bring into communication the variety of approaches to the understanding of human nature which have a regrettable tendency to be less in touch with one another than they might. We make welcome writings and discussions on anthropology, archaeology, artificial intelligence, behaviour genetics, cognitive science, [...], sociobiology, and debates about them; history, philosophy and social studies in the human sciences; Darwinian scholarship; hermeneutics; verstehen; biography and autobiography; psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches and so on. This list of topics and disciplines is meant to be suggestive, not exhaustive. [...] We are particularly interested in receiving overviews of recent work in disciplines relevant to the understanding of human nature, e.g., particular human sciences, narrative psychology, including historical and philosophical approaches." The What's New section is a good starting point, providing you with up-to-date reviews and more ... for example the full text of William James' "The variety of religious experience". Try Human Nature's search field -- it does a full text search on the database and gives its findings in a very worthwhile format.

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment

LAWRENCE, PAUL R. AND NITIN NOHRIA. 2002. Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. [ISBN 0-7879-6385-2.]

Keith S. Harris, Ph.D., Research Director, Department of Behavioral Health, San Bernardino County, CA, USA, wrote a review: "It is not the laboratory but the workplace that is the ideal setting to study human nature, according to Lawrence and Nohria. This book seeks to examine the common drives that shape human behavior, and to show how they evolved, what they evolved to accomplish, and how they still operate in both small and large-group settings. Although this book has much to say about human psychology, authors Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria are not psychologists. Both are professors of organizational behavior at Harvard, and they well know that the individual human cannot be understood distinct from his or her reciprocity groups, of which the epitome is the modern tribe known as an organization." The full text of the review, which was published in Human Nature Review 2003 Volume 3: 263-265 (8 May) is available online. via Anthro-L

... Link (0 comments) ... Comment