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1879 Amer. Naturalist 13 278 Some practical studies in Psycho-biology, with especial reference to the influence of mental states in disease.

1923 A. Meyer in E. Winters Coll. Papers (1952) IV. 244 In connection with psychiatric work, but from an angle quite different from Freudism, there had developed during the last twenty-five years a less spectacular objective psychobiology.

1946 J. P. Scott in Minutes Conf. Genetics & Social Behaviour 5 The zoologists and psychologists who work with animals can do their part to help extend these generalizations by working toward the development of comparative sociology, or perhaps it may be called psychobiology or sociobiology.

1985 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 30 204 We can recognize the expression of emotion because we share the same psychobiology.

1996 New Scientist 3 Feb. 41/1 Evolutionary theory and psychobiology have had an inordinate influence on sex research and sexuality has been reduced to instincts, genetics or fluctuation in hormone levels.

1914 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 53 16 Either the behaviorist is just biologist..: or the behaviorist sees expression where the biologist sees ultimate fact; and in that case he may equally well be called psychobiologist.

1977 D. M. Rumbaugh et al. in Language Learning by Chimpanzee iv. 89 Yerkes was a very insightful, pioneering psychobiologist.

1994 New Scientist 12 Mar. 25/1 Psychobiologists believe it may eventually be possible to relate these ‘maps’ of personality directly to levels of different neurotransmitters in different parts of the brain.