Sentences with phrase «behavior as hostile»

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Legal precedent, meanwhile, tends to define sexual harassment as occurring either when a supervisor requests sex in exchange for a subordinate being promoted or not being fired, or when an employee is subject to behavior of a sexual nature that's so pervasive it creates a hostile work environment.

Sources who have seen parts of it said the report chronicles an aggressive and fast - growing startup, resulting in a frequently chaotic and «hostile work environment» without adequate systems in place to ensure that violations such as sexual harassment and retaliatory behavior were dealt with professionally.

Psychological operations, according to a field manual produced by the U.S. Army, involve the «planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of hostile foreign groups in such a way as to support the achievement of [U.S.] national objectives.

Hostile Aggressive Parenting is defined as a pattern of behaviors or actions on the part of one parent or guardian that interferes with or creates difficulties in the relationship between a child or children and their other parent or guardian or another person involved in the raising of the child.

In the ruling from Judge Howard Levine, who was appointed a hearing officer in Kellner's appeal, both the Ethics Committee's ruling that the Manhattan Democrat engaged in inappropriate behavior that created a hostile working environment as well as Silver's decision to impose penalties were upheld.

The alleged hostile behavior, even if it appears to comport with Percoco's preexistent public persona, serves as an example of the kind of unflattering material the trial may dredge up.

Cultures that had the lowest rates of hostile attributional bias, such as Trollhättan, Sweden, and Jinan, China, also had the lowest rates of child aggressive behavior problems.

Using detailed questionnaires and a homophobia scale, researchers including Jannini found that men who ranked as more homophobic also were more prone to hostile and aggressive behaviors.

Individual and dyadic behavior varied as a function of goals, hostile attributions, and attitude concordance within dyads.

Any mention of self - publishing outside the designated forum (and as J. Sarayada Shapiro notes below, even the description of that forum is hostile) is met with unmoderated sarcasm (violating their «respect your fellow writer» rule), outright insults, and unchecked bad behavior until the self - publisher shuts up and goes away or defends him / herself enough to warrant a ban.

Also, as mentioned earlier, the term reinforcement denotes a behavior that increases in frequency, whereas, the term punishment, is not used to entail anything hostile, but simply denotes a behavior that decreases in frequency.

Aggression, defined as hostile or violent behavior intended to dominate or intimidate another individual, is a fairly common behavioral problem in cats.

Any behavior that can be seen as hostile will be reason for our security forces to take action.

The investigators describe gender harassment as «a broad range of verbal and nonverbal behaviors not aimed at sexual cooperation but that convey insulting, hostile, and degrading attitudes about women.»

Overall, the system is perhaps best described as a proposal for how the Lightning Network could manage trade - offs between performance, scalability and centralization while offering a network model that does not assume hostile behavior.

OBJECTIVES: To examine the prenatal and postnatal mechanisms by which maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) predict the early development of their offspring, specifically via biological (maternal health risk in pregnancy, infant health risk at birth) and psychosocial risk (maternal stress during and after pregnancy, as well as hostile behavior in early infancy).

To the extent that couples were hostile towards each other when resolving their marital disputes, 3 years later their children tended to be seen by their teachers as exhibiting mild forms of antisocial behavior.

This pattern of findings across two studies suggests that avoidant individuals have more negative biases about their partners» emotions, and when they perceive their partners» feelings as more negative, they engage in more hostile behaviors.

Oppositional defiant disorder is a psychiatric category listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders where it is decribed as an ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures that goes beyond the bounds of normal childhood behavior.

To construct the rejecting behavior composite, 1 point was awarded for each behavior that was rated by psychometricians and physicians as hostile or rejecting (eg, if the mother's expression of affect was consistently negative or if she was unresponsive to her child's needs; α =.71).35 Parents «criminal conviction history was assessed via a questionnaire posted to parents who were asked to report if they had ever been convicted of a crime; 3 % of the mothers and12 % of the fathers reported that they had been.

As therapists, we have all experienced stuck - points with our patients: situations where patients» challenging behavior — emotionally distant, hostile, dominant, bullying, etc. — brings the therapy to a standstill.

If the court ignores the history of violence as the context for the mother's behavior in a custody evaluation, she may appear hostile, uncooperative, or mentally unstable.

Disorganized infant attachment classification and maternal psychosocial problems as predictors of hostile - aggressive behavior in the preschool classroom.

Hostile Aggressive Parenting is the pattern of behavior that leads to a psychological or social condition known as Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS).

Hostile Aggressive Parenting is defined as a pattern of behaviors or actions on the part of one parent or guardian that interferes with or creates difficulties in the relationship between a child or children and their other parent or guardian or another person involved in the raising of the child.

Disorganized infant attachment classification and maternal psychosocial problems as predictors of hostile — aggressive behavior in the preschool classroom

Oppositional defiant disorder is defined in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM - IV) as including persistent symptoms of «negativistic, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behaviors toward authority figures.»

Behavioral data were skewed at both GCRC admissions; during the social support interactions, 2 or fewer of the total dyadic behaviors were categorized as hostile in 56.1 % of couples (range, 0 - 27).

However, high - and low - hostile behavior subjects had a different pattern of response to the spousal interactions as reflected in their PANAS negative mood ratings, after controlling for visit; high - hostile subjects» moods were more negative after each of the interactions, while low - hostile subjects» moods were less negative (F1, 40 = 5.24; P =.03).

Thus, a series of studies have shown that marital conflict alters physiological functioning, and hostile behavior, particularly during conflict, markedly enhances adverse physiological changes; moreover, women appear to be more adversely affected than men.5 In this study, we extended this line of research to assess how hostile marital behavior modulated an important health outcome, wound healing, as well as local and systemic proinflammatory cytokine production.

Objective To assess how hostile marital behaviors modulate wound healing, as well as local and systemic proinflammatory cytokine production.

Accordingly, because our interest was in the effects of recurring or customary hostility, we categorized couples who were higher than the median on hostile behaviors at both GCRC admissions as high hostile (28.6 % of the sample) and the remainder as low hostile; thus, a couple was not classified as hostile simply because they had 1 bad day.