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Human Behavior and Victimology

Lesson
Module 3
Human Behavior
and IV. Aspects of Behavior
V. Determinants of Behavior
Victimology

PLTCOL JOSE C COBALLES, PhD Crim, PESE

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• belief is an idea that a person holds as being true, e.g., base

from mathematical principles
• values are stable long-lasting beliefs about what is important
to a person; belief will develop into a value
• attitudes are the mental dispositions people have towards
others and the current circumstances; formed their attitudes
from underlying values and beliefs
• behavior are actions of an organism or in response with
other organism’s action; are how these internalized systems
(attitudes, beliefs and values) are expressed
• ethics are often used to describe attitudes and behaviors
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The brain……

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What influences human behavior? What influences human behavior? (cont’n…)

Behavioral Science: the study of human behavior 1. understanding consumer behavior
• indispensable, behavioral science is a vital across societal • commitment to understanding its consumers’
contexts psychological processes
e.g., can help promote sustainable spending and • fails to speak to customers’ inspirations, fears and
encourage businesses to adopt more environmentally perceptions, then its messaging
friendly practices or products • e.g., in COVID-19 pandemic, 75% of consumers in
• crucial, useful in organizational decision-making the United States tried a new store, brand or way of
e.g., can help to motivate employees and better shopping, according to McKinsey and Company
understand workplace structures and interaction
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What influences human behavior? (cont’n…) What influences human behavior? (cont’n…)

2. understanding behavior in organizations 3. applying behavioral science to real-world situations

• by attending to the human needs of employees, • applying what’s been learned through research to
business partners and community stakeholders, drive positive outcomes both internally with
organizations employees and externally with consumers
• can increase morale and satisfaction
• thus improving overall productivity

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IV. Aspects of Behavior

• intellectual aspect – pertains to our way of thinking,
reasoning, solving problem, processing information
and coping with the environment
• emotional aspect – our feelings, mood, temper and
strong motivational force
• social aspect – pertains to how we interact or relate
with other people
• moral aspect – refers to our conscience and concept
on what is good or bad
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IV. Aspects of Behavior (cont’n…) IV. Aspects of Behavior

• psychosexual aspect – pertains to our being a man or Where:
a woman and the expression of love C – Crime/Criminal behavior (the Act)
• political aspect – our ideology towards society/ T – Criminal Tendency (Desire/Intent)
government S – Total Situation (Opportunity)
• value/attitude – pertains to our interest towards R – Resistance to Temptation (Control)
something, our likes and dislikes By: David Abrahamsem, Crime and Human Mind, 1945

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Reasons why studying the way humans think, feel and act
1. understanding motivation
• intrinsic and extrinsic motivators drive people in
different ways
• e.g., a greater sense of purpose and fulfilment
(intrinsic) or getting a raise (extrinsic)
• understanding the interplay of both can help us grasp
how to motivate them (and ourselves)

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Reasons why studying the way humans think, feel and act (cont’n…) Reasons why studying the way humans think, feel and act (cont’n…)

2. increasing productivity 3. creating high performing teams

• to understand how people think, act, and feel can • communicating clearly and collaborating effectively in

help create a healthy and productive work teams is essential to creating successful teams that
environment thrive
• Ubuntu is an African philosophy, “I am, because you
are” - means that a person is a person through other
people

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V. Determinants of Behavior V. Determinants of Behavior

• why people are heterosexual and some homosexual, some are alcoholics and criminals
• why people are heterosexual and some homosexual, 2. environmental factors
some are alcoholics and criminals • anything around the person that influences his
1. heredity (biological factors) action
• refers to genetic influences, the characteristics of a a. family background – where an individual first
person acquired from birth experience how to relate and interact with one
• explains our emotional aggression, intelligence another; the cradle of personality development
and physical appearance, diseases b. childhood trauma – the experiences, which affect
• the idea concerning criminal behavior the concept the feeling of security of a child undergoing
that ‘criminals are born’ development processes
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V. Determinants of Behavior V. Determinants of Behavior

• why people are heterosexual and some homosexual, some are alcoholics and criminals
• why people are heterosexual and some homosexual, some are alcoholics and criminals
2. environmental factors
2. environmental factors (cont’n…) c. pathogenic family structure – families associated with high frequency of
c. pathogenic family structure – families associated problems, such as:

with high frequency of problems, such as: 3. the discordant/disturbed family

• non-satisfaction of one or both parent from
1. the inadequate family – inability to cope with
the ordinary problems of family living; lacks the relationship that may express feeling of
resources and psychological in meeting the frustration due to value differences as sources
demand of family satisfaction of conflict
2. the anti-social family – espouses unacceptable 4. the disrupted family
• incompleteness whether as a result of death
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V. Determinants of Behavior
• why people are heterosexual and some homosexual, some are alcoholics and criminals

3. other factors
a. institutional influences such as peer group,
church, school
b. socio-cultural factors such as war and violence,
employment, social changes
c. nutrition or quality of food that a person intake;
poverty

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