Definition of "psychobiology" []

• The study of the effects of cognition, emotions, and experience on animal physiology. (noun)
• The school of psychology that interprets personality, behavior, and mental illness in terms of responses to interrelated biological, social, cultural, and environmental factors. (noun)

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• "The author of the educational "Improbable Antics" is Dario Maestripieri, holder of a doctorate in psychobiology and someone who specializes in primate behavior."
• "This work reinforces another lesson of developmental psychobiology, which is that the relevant aspects of the ontogenetic niche are"
• "• Schumann resonances have gone beyond the boundaries of physics, invading medicine, raising interest in artists and musicians, and gaining interest from fringe fields such as psychobiology and yoga."