Habits In Teams
Creatures of habit
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. It emerged from two other disciplines, physiology and philosophy, because scientists in the early twentieth century insisted it should be a separate discipline, more empirical than philosophy and more focused on the mind than physiology.
William James (with William Wundt) are widely considered to be the fathers of modern psychology. In his seminal work, The Principles of Psychology (1890), James said, “When we look at creatures from an outward point of view, one of the first things that strikes us is that they are bundles of habits.”
As the saying goes, we are creatures of habit—good and bad.
The field of psychology has also received increasing attention from neuroscientists. In the last 30 years, both behavioural and cognitive psychology have been increasingly informed by advances in brain science, and neuroscientists are now insisting that earlier works of William James, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and others are due for a comeback and must be revisited. Terms like, neural activity in cortical areas, abnormal neural responses, brain fMRI reactivity, posterior dorsolateral striatum, and most importantly, the basil ganglia are now dominant in the study of human behaviour.
