Abstract
Behavior Analysis may be regarded as a perspective that tackles the evolutionary study of social behavior and culture. Social behavior's characterization in this field and recent researches on metacontingencies and macrocontingencies are contributions in this direction. Other evolutionary perspectives, closest to Biology, have also produced theories and evidences on this theme, but without dialogue with Behavior Analysis, which, by its turn, discusses little this other perspectives' contributions. This paper highlights possible convergences and complementarities between Behavior Analysis and studies on social learning in nonhuman animals, niche construction, and cultural evolution, aiming to enhance dialogues among researchers from different evolutionary perspectives studying social behavior and culture.
Keywords:
social behavior; cultural evolution; behavior analysis; metacontingency; niche construction