Arch Sc soc des Rel. 1987 64 juillet-septembre) 95-116 Jean-Pierre DECONCHY LE BIOLOGIQUE ET SES ALTERNATIVES DANS LA PRODUCTION DES CONDUITES HUMAINES Leur représentation chez des croyants et des non- croyants The experiment described below was conducted aspart of research projectou the social representation of the origins human behavior Concerning certain number of these behaviors 209 volunteers later divided into believers and non-believers based on their own statements were asked to evaluate on scale of 3/+3 to what extent for each of these types of behavior the human body with all its biological and physiological functions contributes to its produc tion Questionnaire anato what extent something else which is neither biological nor physiological also contributes Questionnaire Both questionnaires were presented in one or the other of the two possible orders of sequence First the answers were processed by ANOVAS in terms of the two independent factors Ynon- believers Order -p -B and factor of repeated measures B/j0)(S(C *0 The expected relationships were obtained and l) interpreted in terms of convergence between the biolo gical representation and its eventual alternatives Principal Com ponent Analyses showed that among believers the types of beha vior evaluated as being solely the products of biological factors alone or their alternatives occupied.on the graph crossing the two first Axes an area very clearly differentiated from the one occupied by types of behavior produced by both of these variables at the same time This differentiation did not appear among the ïîï vers

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