Sentences with phrase «behavior of a group of people»

Not exact matches

In fact, it can account for up to 85 percent of the reason people buy one product over another, according to the Color Marketing Group, a professional organization for color designers in Alexandria, Va.Color's influence on consumer behavior isn't confined to just merchandise.

Because observational studies look at groups of people and their behavior over time, it's hard to say for sure that other conflicting factors aren't influencing the outcomes they examine.

Because of this, people who fall into a gender, racial, or ethnic group that is likely to experience negative bias have found that downplaying that association can help them sidestep discrimination, behavior known as «covering.»

A proper definition is something like: culture is the willing behaviors and beliefs of a group of people.

Other studies have shown that the behavior of high - ranking people sets the tone in their groups — that it trickles down.

However, buyer personas also include specific demographics data and information on aspects such as their online behavior, personal, professional, and relationship with us — that is, you're not interested in a «group of people», but that particular «individual» that turns out to be your «ideal client».

I know the people libeled in this thread — I don't know all the details of personal behavior, but I know the «Discernment Group» did nothing «evil» in this matter.

Definition of BEHAVIOR 1a: the manner of conducting oneself b: anything that an organism does involving action and response to sti.mulation c: the response of an individual, group, or species to its environment Glad that we know people are not born gay.

Whatever behaviors we think the Bible calls sin does not mean focusing on one group of people and what we suppose their sin to be and ignoring our own sins.

I think for the most part you can't judge an entire group of people all together in a lump, however when most of them act a certain way and the way is contemptible behavior, I think it's time to take a deep look at it.

Since people behave differently in small intimate groups than in large public ones, there are some things we can say about the behavior of people in groups that refer to the structure of the group rather than to the individuality of its members....

The small fellowship groups were like extended families of yesteryear in which people cared for one another and simultaneously held one another accountable for their behavior.

On the other hand, all kinds of social influences can make a difference in the behavior, and even the orientation, of that larger group of people who have some inclination in both directions.

«What DiSalvo missed, however, is that people like Randy Terry, Joan Andrews, and Christy Anne Collins have called the many pro-life sit - in groups around the country to a uniform code of «peaceful, prayerful» behavior and repentant acceptance of jail time (rather than paying bail or fines) which has become common — almost standard — throughout the movement.

Yet many church groups conduct programs of «public affairs» as if persons are autonomous units, isolated from the influence of power entities in their communities and able to regulate their behavior under all circumstances by dint of sheer moral will.

And usually what is discovered in these groups is that even IF a person is able to modify one behavior or overcome one addiction, they often fall into some other sort of destructive behavior or addiction, which often makes their overall condition worse than it was before.

A group representing local police chiefs is calling for passage of a bill that would allow firearms to be taken from people who show unstable or potentially dangerous behavior.

«It is difficult to understand why Borough President Adams, who prides himself on being someone who respects the law and enforces order, is in this case, putting those values aside to go against the most local representatives of the community and follow the lead of people who deploy some of the most thuggish, vitriolic behavior,» said Lee Silberstein, a spokesman for the Rabsky Group.

«What we're trying to get them to look for are, that aggressive person who's not taking no for an answer; the group that is using catcalls or putdowns, just verbally harassing customers; the person who comes in and perhaps buys one drink but is watching to see who's drinking a lot or ordering a lot of drinks for a particular person, those types of behaviors that may indicate they're there for a different reason,» says Craft.

To think that a group of people affiliated to a political party forming the government could muster the courage to put up this behavior in a court of law has never happened even under the democratic regimes perceived as nascent.

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

The participants were asked how much they thought most people they know would like the hypothetical group, how willing these friends would be to engage in activities on behalf of the group and to what extent their friends would sympathize with the group should it engage in extreme behaviors, such as participating in illegal or violent demonstrations or damaging people's property.

Some of the increase in anti-social behavior may even help reinforce cooperation in a group, such as when an individual calls out another person within the group for rule - breaking behavior.

From this perspective, it is easy to understand the relatively constrained behavior of people who are part of a religious or other mainstream group and the more fluid «morality» of those who are «open to experience.»

An astonishing number of things that scientists know about brains and behavior are based on small groups of highly educated, mostly white people between the ages of 18 and 21.

With the dawn of agriculture more than 10,000 years ago, our ancestors began settling in villages and living in larger groups, making tolerance of other people and cooperative behavior increasingly necessary.

She says that this understanding of creative behavior means it can be fostered in society: «People can be made more creative... through education and through encouragement for the collaborations and groups that might stimulate creative outputs.»

Finally, Obradovich and Guenther ran survey experiments with a different group of 451 people, also recruited through MTurk, asking them to assess how they might change their future climate - related behaviors.

Research published today in Nature Human Behavior shows seeing familiar people activates a network of brain regions that appears to encode their position within the social group.

Almost all people in the mood / behavior group, or 91 percent, experienced symptoms of memory and thinking decline at some point, but fewer in the cognition group experienced mood and behavior symptoms throughout their disease, with 55 percent experiencing behavior symptoms and 64 percent experiencing mood symptoms at some point.

«The debate led us to wonder: Are people willing to punish members of another group when they perceive their behavior as unfair, even when exacting that punishment comes at a personal cost?»

Decety has expanded his research to examine the effects of religion on children's behavior in 14 countries, and is also exploring whether religion influences how children decide to distribute goods among different people in a group.

Simply adding social diversity to a group makes people believe that differences of perspective might exist among them and that belief makes people change their behavior.

«By analyzing different types of social media, search terms, or even blogs, we are able to capture people's thinking, communication patterns, health, beliefs, prejudices, group behaviors — essentially everything that has ever been studied in social and personality psychology,» says James Pennebaker, president of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), which is kicking off its annual conference today in Austin.

«Those who do not reform their behavior, behaving selfishly despite the risk of gossip and ostracism, tended to be targeted by other group members who took pains to tell future group members about the person's untrustworthy behavior,» Willer said.

Psychology researcher Paul Rozin of the University of Pennsylvania was prompted to investigate the ways in which individuals and institutions communicate their group membership as a result of many years of observation, after «noticing the behavior of people just promoted to a better position, or just after receiving a degree, or being admitted to a relatively exclusive group.»

social order The system of values, practices, institutions and rules that guide the behaviors of an integrated group of people or animals.

But such events have raised scientific questions about why humans can't control behaviors such as laughing, yawning, coughing and shivering — and why they spread among groups of people.

culture (in social science) The sum total of typical behaviors and social practices of a related group of people (such as a tribe or nation).

To date, there has been much research that's observed socially contagious behaviors in humans and animals, but scientists are just starting to look into what makes them ripple through groups of people.

culture (n. in social science) The sum total of typical behaviors and social practices of a related group of people (such as a tribe or nation).

«Sometimes we need to seek validation from friends, family, support groups, or a counselor to decrease the effects of the behavior of uninformed people,» she says.

A few months ago, researchers took a group of 35 people that used the internet often (CEOs and entrepreneurs) into the desert in Morocco to study if their behavior would change with and without technology use.

These five group qualities were so pronounced that Lowen and Reich would challenge any psychologist to bring them any patient and within minutes they could hand them back a detailed history of this person's life challenges, long - term behavior patterns as well as why they presented with the specific neurotic tendencies they had.

Research by Denny and colleagues [7] investigated the effects of intuitive eating on weight loss and healthy eating behavior in a group of people from a project called EAT - III.

There are group of people that may consider cougar dating younger men as a behavior that reveals a sense of desperation.

The Champions are a group of teenage Super Heroes started by three Avengers disillusioned by the behavior of their elders and the general state of distrust by the people towards super-powered beings.

This little observational portrait captures Denis Lavant (the actor responsible for the much talked about and practically universally acclaimed performance in Leos Carax's Holy Motors from last year) as he conducts what seems to be a class with a group of people attempting to mimic his behaviors.

Collective punishment is the punishment of a group of people as a result of the behavior of one or more other individuals or groups.

Culture is built on trusting relationships, the relationships people have with each other in the workplace exerts a powerful influence on the behavior of the working group.