Behaviors

All of the pregnant person’s behaviors—including behaviors that “wouldn’t otherwise be criminal, were they not pregnant”—become subject to state surveillance and punishment.

And that’s the catch-22, the trap: we don’t want to over-attend to behaviors we want to extinguish because doing so could accidentally reinforce the very behaviors we’re trying to get rid of.

Behaviors changed from minor issues like passengers putting their feet on seats to more concerning behaviors like smoking cigarettes or openly using drugs.

But there are other ways to credibly study the cause-and-effect relationships of dietary and lifestyle behaviors: by identifying situations in which people are exposed to those behaviors not by the randomizing hands of researchers but by accident.

Automating behaviors, like automatic savings, investing, and bill pay, turns desired behaviors into default actions.

The cage story with monkeys learning and perpetuating behaviors out of habit highlights the influence of the environment on the evolution of behaviors.

When you’re dealing with conditions that are diagnosed based on a checklist of behaviors, which is the case with ADHD and autism, you’re simply observing behaviors and rating whether they meet certain criteria.

All punishment procedures can evoke other problem behaviors, damage rapport, or evoke escape or avoidant behaviors.

Every single instance of altruistic behavior need not always increase inclusive fitness; altruistic behaviors would have been selected for if such behaviors on average increased inclusive fitness in the ancestral environment.

Skeptics argue that behaviors said to identify self-awareness resemble existing social behaviors, so researchers could be misinterpreting self-awareness for social responses.

A judge may also consider a spouse’s negative parenting behaviors in determining parenting rights and duties and time split.

Among the study's limitations, the authors note that they did not analyze race and ethnicity aside from broad categories, nor were they able to analyze the behaviors or personal biases that led to school officials' decisions to suspend or arrest students.

And I, like so many other homosexual men, absolutely did not identify with such patterns and behaviors.

Another report suggests that US workers feel that their manager engages in hostile behaviors toward them.

As a younger leader who mostly focused on the results, I was missing the critical area of the behaviors that drive results.

As with most wild mammals, the cubs will exhibit more natural behaviors when they are housed with others their same age.

Because many Americans are DIY’ing their finances, there’s little accountability and no one to help when certain behaviors aren’t serving their end goals.

Brown says for better or worse, tax breaks exist to incentivize certain behaviors like buying real state, having children or driving electric cars.

But we will not change the culture unless we work in a scientific way to change behaviors.

Consumers also were asked to recall their food behaviors over the last month.