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Isabellewoods.
Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 15:32, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
After editing biological psychology, I discovered that the behavioral neuroscience page redirected to biological psychology. I did not feel this was appropriate or desirable.
I did not feel it was appropriate because the two fields are, to my mind, distinct. They overlap almost completely in methodology, and they overlap considerably in terms of the scientists involved, but they are philosophically different and they emphasize different facts of nature. Biological psychology is directed at understanding behavior and thought; behavioral neuroscience is directed at understanding the organization of the nervous system.
I did not feel it was desirable because the Psychology article talks about its subfields, which should allow a link to a standalone article on that subfield. The neuroscience article also lists its subfields, with the appropriate links. To have a neuroscience article link to a psychology subfield, or vice versa, made navigation pretty disorganized.
I know it is also not desirable to have overlap, so there may be others who would consider merging in the future. I wanted to state my reasons for preferring a separation.
SJS1971 23:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
Interesting point. Nevertheless, I dispute the separation. The term IS synonymous with biological psychology, psychobiology, etc. This is supported by multiple standard textbooks such as biopsychology by Pinel, biological psychology by Rozensweig et al., and physiology of behavior by Carlson. Moreover, the American Psychological Association journal "Behavioral Neuroscience" is devoted to publishing articles that discuss "the broad field of the biological bases of behavior." Even behavioral neuroscience or biological psychology doctoral programs are used synonymously within Psychology departments (e.g., http://wings.buffalo.edu/psychology/doctoral/neuroscience.html and http://www.has.vcu.edu/psy/biopsy/index.html). Behavioral neuroscience is NOT directed to the understanding the organization of the nervous system. That is neurobiology. Thus, I am reverting it back to a redirect to prevent unnecessary confusion among naive readers. mezzaninelounge 22:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
I just reverted a change to the references that modified the reference to be to a more recent edition of the work originally referenced. Since the prior edition was the original basis for the article, it should remain the reference of record unless substantive changes to the article are made based on material in the new edition.
The Uninvited Co., Inc. 15:53, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Somebody (whoever you are please stop immediately) keeps redirecting David Jay Brown's Wikipedia page to here. There is no logic in this redirect. I am also going into Wikipedia help files now to report this issue regarding this page.
This message is also posted on David's talk page.
Altogether ( talk) 17:49, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm concerned about the capitalization of "Behavioral Neuroscience." I have seen it always where both are capitalized, so I believe this page should have both as well. It is a specific field. It also looks very unprofessional for it to not be.
sau ( talk) 20:00, 28 April 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laniml ( talk • contribs)
This sort of violates WP:FORUM so make responses short and sweet, please. :) My guess is the difference is moot and tied up in technicalities 137.124.161.31 ( talk) 21:31, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
I think that expanding on some of the fundamental ideas that guide research design could use some further hashing out to make the articles more accessible to the public. I've included a small example of this in the Limitations section, but that sort of theme would probably benefit the article as a whole. On the topic of the section I edited, specifically, it feels like we are relying far too much on a single citation to guide it, I'll put some work into it over the next few days. Di4gram ( talk) 17:15, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
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The Neuroscience of everyday life, Neuroscience in everyday life from psychology today, and theories of biological psychology from Verywell mind all add to this article while putting the subject in different view points.
User:Isabellewoods —Preceding
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19:29, 24 April 2019 (UTC)