Sentences with phrase «something about their behavior»

For now, at least, it may be enough to know that for the students in Jackson's study, spending a few hours each week in close proximity to a certain kind of teacher changed something about their behavior.
I recently realized something about the behavior of rats — and after being «The Rat Lady» for nearly 30 years, that's saying something.

Not exact matches

I can honestly say that there are times when I've been most excited by a failed promotion that taught me something critical about customer attitude and behavior.
Every workplace will have a certain amount of gossiping, but if one of your employees enjoys reporting bad news about you, others in your company, or even the competition, that's destructive behavior and you need to do something about it.
Whether the employee simply has a knack for always saying the worst possible thing or the behavior puts your business at risk for a sexual harassment claim, it's important to do something about the employee as soon as possible.
There is something distinctly human about off - the - cuff remarks, and something distinctly robotic about perfectly planned and choreographed behavior.
In a recent New York Times story about Weinstein, director Quentin Tarantino admitted to wishing he had followed the «see something, say something» model when it came to the producer's behavior.
Speaking in Poland, U.S. President Donald Trump said something would have to be done about North Korea's «very, very bad behavior», before adding that he believed Russia had interfered in the U.S. election.
If augmented reality games continue to grow in popularity as a category, there may be more pressure than ever for governments to step in and do something about the dumbest behavior this side of drinking and driving.
Acknowledge the inappropriateness of the behavior in question: Even if you are dealing with someone who is upset about something that you think is petty, you most likely will agree on some level that the way the customer was treated was inappropriate.
The only content that gets effectively communicated these days is authentically shared material (often user - authored) and SquareOffs encourages and accelerates that behavior by helping publishers and authors provide current and compelling bite - size choices and content (suitable for sharing) that triggers our natural (water cooler) inclinations and behaviors to share something new, something timely, something political, something we're concerned or passionate about, etc. with those around and closest to us.
But if tech firms want to get serious about hiring, retaining, and promoting more women, they'll need something more effective than sensitivity or mentoring programs that «fix» individual behavior, and longer lasting than cultural change programs.
Since I have a Ph.D. in political science (albeit from a Canadian university), some people expect me to know something about voting behavior.
He intelligently applies such truisms to various marketing and public policy issues, but they are in service to his larger point: forget the formation of character and persuading people about whether something is true» the way to get things done is to condition behavior.
On the other end, when we are amonished, we shouldn't get defensive about it, but recognize that we ourselves might be wrong about our own behavior; we might be doing something that is causing harm without realizing it.
Clearly we shouldn't judge the behaviors of the abusive husband because he might know something about her that we don't and it really was for her own good.
There was something incredibly careless — and so ironic as to feed the worst black paranoia — about both the white radicals» celebration of and the liberals» acceptance of this pathological behavior.
Rather than thinking of culture as something implicit or taken for granted — as something about latent normative patterns that can be inferred only from observing regularities in social behavior — the new cultural sociology regards culture as something tangible, explicit, and overtly produced.
Valliere noticed an immediate change in people's behaviors and attitudes after Maria, that people were worried about whether something of this scale could happen to them again, and whether they were ever going to get back to normal.
I have seen no evidence that either of them participated in any kind of bad behavior, or even knew about any of the specific events, yet I have a hard time believing that neither of them had a sense that something was going on.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was incensed by Costa's behavior during the game and said that the FA needed to do something about it, claiming that it was the least they could do.
Education during pregnancy rarely has anything serious to do with breastfeeding, and since breastfeeding is perceived by most pre-parenthood women to be a natural, instinctive thing instead of a learned behavior (on both mom & baby's part) if it doesn't go absolutely perfectly from the first moments they may feel something is wrong with THEM and clam up about it while quietly giving the baby the hospital - offered bottle along with the bag of formula samples they give out «just in case» even if you explicitly tell them you're breastfeeding (which was my experience with my firstborn in 2004 and one of the many highly informed reasons I chose to birth my next two at home).
«Think how you would feel if your friend said something to you about your style as a parent or your kid's behavior,» she says.
So if something is bugging you about kids and food — whether it's the unnecessary «refueling» with Oreos at the 10 am soccer match, the prevalence of highly processed food on your child's lunch tray, or the Sunday school teacher who hands out candy for good behavior — speak up and get involved.
Head shaking is quite common and a variety of this repetitive behavior is a baby hitting his or her head, something you can read about here.
It's finding the courage to dig into the limiting beliefs I have about myself and resulting patterns of behavior and train myself to try on something different.
If for any reason you feel your baby may have signs of early autism — whether she's showing some of the behaviors described above or you just have a feeling something isn't right — talk to your pediatrician about having her evaluated.
Being upset about something and not talking about it creates resentment that leads to problematic behaviors that may or may not lead to infidelity.
Something to think about: Are they really difficult teenagers, or is it our reactions to their behavior that are more the problem?
If you feel something is «off» about your child's attachment to you or her behavior, listen to your heart and not to other parents / friends or family members who are not experts in post-institutionalized children.
There may be one or two tables with parents who understand what it's like to have a screaming toddler holding you hostage at a restaurant, but the rest of the tables will be staring you down in an effort to get you to do something about your child's behavior.
Or what about something as simple as I'm in the kitchen fixing dinner and am refereeing bad behavior in the adjoining family room while pulling something hot out of the oven?
The danger here is that if you think a child is doing something intentionally to bother you or hurt you, you're going to respond a lot differently than if you see it as a behavior that isn't about you.
«The key point here is that we can say something about how the gene acts to influence this behavior — that is, is by functioning as a chemical messenger in cells that control this behavior in the brain.
And this life - tracking craze has produced something that many clinical researchers covet: a deluge of intimate data about individuals» moment - to - moment behavior, and the chance to influence that behavior in real time, through activities built into an app or strategically timed alerts and messages.
But the new study suggests that the ACC may be doing something even more fundamental — making subjective judgements about whether outcomes of behaviors are good or bad, even before people are consciously aware of the results of what they've done.
Science has learned a great deal about complex social behavior by studying nonhuman mammals and primates, but parrots might have something to teach too.
«They almost always have what looks like purposeful behavior, but you can't quite put your finger on it because there's something so alien about them.»
Both of these apes may have something to tell us about the evolution of human behavior, yet most research has focused on chimps, in large part because bonobos are endangered — perhaps as few as 10,000 remain.
«Those patterns and the frictional behavior they cause might be able to tell us something about how earthquakes nucleate and how they propagate.»
This life - tracking craze has produced something that many clinical researchers covet: a deluge of intimate data about individuals» moment - to - moment behavior in «the wild,» as researchers sometimes call the world outside the controlled environment of the lab or the clinic.
The functioning of our sensory systems and their relevance to predatory behavior may tell us something about why we are responsive to rare sensory events.
After many months of looking and listening for correlations between lots of different behaviors and cell activity, I began to realize that the major correlate was not what the animal was doing, whether it was eating or exploring an object or carrying out a simple tasks such as pressing a lever to get food, but something about where it was doing these things in the environment.
An international team of astronomers has looked at something very big — a distant galaxy — to study the behavior of things very small — atoms and molecules — to gain vital clues about the fundamental nature of our entire Universe.
If you are new to online date it's worth your some time to effort getting to know something about on the internet social behavior and usually recognized dos and does knots.
If you feel something isn't right about what your date is telling you, or that his behaviors and actions differ from his words, that's your intuition speaking.
Not only does it make the women wonder if there is something wrong with you, it is extremely poor behavior to talk about an ex.
If something about your wife's recent behavior seems off and your instincts are telling you that there might be
Alvarez is trying to capture something not just about human behavior but the institutions that shape it, and he mostly gets there.
He keeps a chart in his room that compares certain tics and behavior that Walter does that he catches himself doing (cracking his neck and, later, spending a large chunk of the day in bed), and he hides a portion of the wall behind a poster — a section of his room where he bangs his head against the wall when something about his life frustrates him enough that he needs to take it out somehow.
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