Cambridge Journal of Human Behaviour

Aims & Scope

The Cambridge Journal of Human Behaviour (CJHB) is an interdisciplinary, quarterly journal that enjoys undergraduate submissions from various anthropological, psychological, and biological approaches to human behaviour. CJHB hopes to provide a platform and opportunity for cross-fertilisation and interdisciplinarity in which the varying methodological frontiers of disciplines may converge, overlap, bisect, or even jar. Our focus is human behaviour, however that may be taken and engaged with. Our aim is to traverse the “two cultures” that are often imagined as having a “gulf of immutable comprehension” (Snow, 1965) between them; i.e., that of the social and natural sciences. Whilst we have decidedly delineated and recommended multiple disciplines to ground and analyse human behaviour, these heuristic distinctions—rather than empirical ones—should come to be understood as “utterly intertwined” (Sapolsky, 2018). The journal is open to any undergraduate article pertaining to human behaviour, but primarily seeks contributions from the fields of Biological and Social Anthropology, Psychology, Archaeology, and relevant topics within the Biological Sciences. By taking a broad definition of behaviour from the Cambridge dictionary as “the way that a person [...] behaves in a particular situation or under particular conditions”, writing about human behaviour in this journal should seek to explain (aetiology, motivations, causality, etc.), contextualise (whether in a social environment or a molecular one, for example), and comment on (analyse multifaceted implications) how these behaviours come to be observed and understood. This is all with the necessary caveat of being bound within the epistemology and methodology of the author’s field of inquiry.

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