How do instincts become emotions, relationships, and love?
A Micropsychological look at how biology, learning, development, and interacting adaptive systems contribute to complex human behavior.
Yehuda Salu · Micropsychology Press
Human behavior does not begin with finished adult patterns. From Instincts to Love begins with simpler biological systems and asks how experience changes them, how they begin to interact, and how increasingly complex behavior can emerge.
The book explores feeding, safety, caregiving, emotion, sex-related behavior, gender, relationships, and love. It also offers a different way to approach an old question: what in us comes from nature, what comes from nurture, and how do the two become inseparable during development?
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