Originally developed by applying models from cognitive psychology to the study of foreign policy decision making, the field of behavioral IR is undergoing important transformations. Building on a broader range of models, methods, and data from the fields of neuroscience, biology, and genetics, behavioral IR has moved beyond the staid debate between rational choice and psychology and instead investigates the plethora of mechanisms selected by evolution for solving adaptive problems. This opens new opportunities for collaboration between scholars informed by rational choice and behavioral insights. Examining the interactions between the individual's genetic inheritance, social environment, and downstream behavior of individuals and groups, the emerging field of behavioral epigenetics offers novel insights into the methodological problem of aggregation that has confounded efforts to apply behavioral findings to IR. In the first instance empirical, behavioral IR raises numerous normative and philosophical questions best answered in dialogue with political and legal theorists.

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行为 IR 的过去、现在和未来

行为 IR 领域最初是通过将认知心理学模型应用于外交政策决策研究而发展起来的，目前正在经历重要的转变。基于来自神经科学、生物学和遗传学领域的更广泛的模型、方法和数据，行为 IR 已经超越了理性选择和心理学之间的陈旧争论，而是研究了进化为解决适应性问题而选择的大量机制. 这为理性选择和行为洞察力的学者之间的合作开辟了新的机会。检查个体的遗传遗传、社会环境以及个体和群体的下游行为之间的相互作用，新兴的行为表观遗传学领域为聚合的方法问题提供了新的见解，这些问题混淆了将行为发现应用于 IR 的努力。在第一个例子中，经验的、行为的 IR 提出了许多规范和哲学问题，最好通过与政治和法律理论家的对话来回答。