Sentences with phrase «behaviour as a trait»

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Drinking too much and demonstrating «laddish» behaviour came out as the most unattractive trait, with 77 % of respondents deeming it unattractive.

But, as University of Chicago professor James Heckman discovered in 2001, going over Perry Pre-School Project (Ypsilanti, Mich.) student success rates, certain character traits and social behaviours were a much better predictor of improved life outcomes.

In Damasio's view, these exist beyond the realm of human beings: some non-human species exhibit traits of moral behaviour — such as compassion or shame.

Personality traits — such as agreeableness, conscientiousness, trust and generosity - also affect behaviour, but in smaller measure, and only initially.

Many criminal offenders display psychopathic traits, such as antisocial and impulsive behaviour.

Psychologists think of personality traits as thermostats within the brain, each regulating a range of behaviours and attitudes.

Our closest primate relatives may have evolved «us versus them» social traits as a means to cope with competition from rival groups of monkeys long before this behaviour first occurred in humans, new research suggests.

«This means that future studies on sexually deceptive pollination should also look at pollinator behaviour as a driver of floral trait evolution, as the role of flower morphology may play a much larger role in the pollination of these intriguing orchids than was previously realised.»

It has unique physical and behavioural traits, such as the dark green spots on its back, its call and its reproductive behaviour (ZooKeys, doi.org/b7mg).

A major goal of my research is to probe the activity of functional network systems as a novel cross-species translational language that can be related to specific behaviours, cognitive processes and neuropathological traits.

In a recent EliteSingles survey, only 4 % of our members consider being a bad kisser a deal - breaker on a date, making it far less of an offence than any other behaviour traits which are usually deemed as a turn - off, such as being rude to the waiter or checking your phone constantly.

One's humour and behaviour were instead selected by our members as the defining traits of an attractive partner.

The 93 per cent who answered otherwise clearly think that the wallet is the least important indicator of attraction: a partner's behaviour and humour were chosen as the most attractive traits in a partner.

Also known as the Big Five personality traits, this theory suggests that our behaviour is predicated on a quintet of specific characteristics; namely openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

There is a reason behind this odd (and adorable) behaviour of theirs, and as it turns out, it is a trait inherited from their ancestors!

They do have personalities and behaviour traits from as young as four and five weeks of age.

Favourable behaviour is important for well - being and negative traits such as aggression may ruin the owner - dog relationship and lead to relinquishment to shelters or even euthanasia of otherwise healthy dogs [2,3].

Breed specific behavioural traits such as hunting, herding and calmness / aggression are, however, evidence of a large genetic component and specific behaviours show high heritabilities [4 - 8].

According to Ceasar Millan, licking behaviour (s) stem from ingrained personality traits bred through canines as a means of communication, bonding, grooming, or even psychological problems.

Fortunately, population genetics theory suggests that breed - characteristic behaviours should not be «lost» from lines of dogs selected for other traits (such as conformation), unless there is active natural selection against them or unfavourable correlated genetic response from selection on other phenotypes.

Neurological signs also occur - such as bizarre behavioural traits - caused by toxic chemicals reaching the brain and triggering strange behaviours.

To lessen the negative impact of these traits, self - awareness and a real attempt to change behaviour can help, as can hiring a diversity of personalities.

Therefore, when the Merriam - Webster dictionary defines artificial intelligence as «the power of a machine to copy intelligent human behaviour», it is, in our view, making a broad overgeneralisation and, we dare say, an ill - fated attempt to give human traits to software.

The use of personality tests in the workplace has always been controversial, with concerns ranging from the reliability of self - reporting, to the lack of consensus amongst psychologists as to what actually constitutes a stable personality trait, as opposed to a mutable mode of behaviour.

A number of platform speakers described how certain behavioural traits have become labelled as either feminine or masculine and how societal behaviour norms tend to influence the expectation and demonstration of these traits.

The unique contribution of teen drinking to later AUDs, over and above other psychosocial determinants, has not been clearly established.7 Individual level factors such as teen mental disorders, personality traits (such as antisocial behaviour) and other substance use may play a significant role.

Taken together, these studies underscore the utility of incorporating cultural traits, such as individualism — collectivism, in macro -(e.g. cross-population) and micro-scale (e.g. within - population) models of GxE factors underlying complex affective disorders and the importance of culture — gene coevolutionary theory for understanding typical and atypical human behaviour, more broadly construed.

The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.

It has been put forward by Wagner et al. (2015) that the dimensions of relational functioning as measured by the FDP may be less related to overt behaviours such as conduct problems than to the emotional / affective processes that characterize callous - unemotional traits.

At the child level, temperamental features evident in infancy and toddlerhood such as irritability, restlessness, irregular patterns of behaviour, lack of persistence and low adaptability increase the risk of behaviour problems7, 8,9 as do certain genetic and neurobiological traits.10, 11 At the family level, parenting practices including punitive discipline, inconsistency, low warmth and involvement, and physical aggression have been found to contribute to the development of young children's aggressive behaviour.12 Children who are exposed to high levels of discord within the home and whose parents have mental health and / or substance abuse issues are also at heightened risk.13 Other important correlates of aggression in children that can contribute to chronic aggression include faulty social - cognitive processes and peer rejection.14

Mothers at a higher risk of child abuse, for example, are more likely to attribute negative traits to children who demonstrate ambiguous behaviour, and see this behaviour as intentional.16 Bugental and her colleagues have administered a cognitive retraining intervention program for parents which aims to alter such biases.

It was found that serotonin level was a significant predictor of high CU traits even when antisocial behaviour severity was included as a covariate.

Higher CU behaviours in children as early as 3 year - old are related to lower guilt and empathy, more proactive aggression [67], and, perspectively, to CU traits in late childhood [67, 82, 83].

A recent meta - analysis showed that low family socio - economic status is associated with higher levels of children's antisocial behaviours, and indicated that this relationship is stronger when CU traits are considered as outcome variables [72].

These measures were chosen as they measure traits and behaviours associated with psychopathy and have been shown to be reliable in measuring these traits in child populations [43]--[46].

Psychopathic traits, previously considered as a meaningful (negative) specifier for severe antisocial and aggressive behaviours in adult psychopathology, have been re-discovered as a relevant factor in subtyping CD in youth [6].