How Habits Work Habits can be easily
defined as the behaviors that determine the quality of how we experience life.
And our core values,
we defined as those behaviors that no matter what else changed in our business, would never change.
Experts call it «maternal gatekeeping,» which is loosely
defined as behaviors or attitudes that moms use to either encourage or discourage dads from being involved in raising their children.
Not exact matches
Defining levels of bad
behavior is important, because we shouldn't lump sexual assault in the same bucket
as a sexist remark, she writes:
Ingratiation is
defined as the use of certain positive
behaviors such
as flattery, doing favors or conforming to another's opinions to get someone else to like you.
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.
When you're literally
defining your career
as you go, you're more prone to settling into certain
behaviors that may help or hinder you for years to come.
Wikipedia
defines social proof, also known
as informational social influence,
as «a psychological phenomenon where people assume the actions of others in an attempt to reflect correct
behavior for a given situation.»
The Ancient Greeks
defined optimism
as «the belief that our
behavior matters,» which is a critical concept for helping individuals to remove limiting beliefs and to shift towards solutions - based thinking.
Dan Denison
defines workplace culture
as «the underlying values, beliefs, and principles that serve
as a foundation for an organization's management system
as well
as the practices and
behaviors that both exemplify and reinforce those basic principles.»
As mentioned above, the
behavior of leaders
defines culture more than anything else.
Remember that it's not necessarily «extroversion»
as defined by Myers - Briggs (a scale between extroverted and introverted) but rather a measure of your ability to engage in extrovert type
behavior.
So it is really just
defined as psychotic
behavior, with no attachment to volitional choice on a person's part?
the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human
behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to
define the function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role
as pastor to persons.
So far I have argued three points: that persons engage in
behavior patterns which can be characterized
as purposive, i. e.,
as exhibiting a structure of aims, values, and methods of attainment; that individuals and institutions are interrelated, with each side influencing and being influenced by the purposes and activities of the other, although with neither being in any way reducible to or explicable solely in terms of the other; and that the institutional pole in this interaction shares with the individual
as its opposite those characteristics that
define its behavioral patterns
as purposive.
The Penguin History of Economics
defines economics
as «a science which studies human
behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means with alternative uses».
Some of us have been educated to regard emotion negatively, to
define it
as disorganized
behavior or a biological lag.
The exclusion of the Christian God is clearest in economics at the point of limiting human
behavior to rational
behavior and
defining that
as self - interested
behavior.
I am suggesting that maybe a central tenet of the GOOD NEWS that Jesus was preaching was that we no longer had to live in accordance with what the established religious community
defined as acceptable moral
behavior.
But
as laws in a traditional government are of a negative nature,
defining the boundaries of
behavior, but insufficient in themselves to inspire it, so terror is insufficient in a totalitarian state to motivate and guide human
behavior.
What this means is that a specific set of
behaviors and beliefs, together with a clearly
defined body of knowledge, are held
as the profession's standard.
So are the miracle wheat and rice of the Green Revolution, the technology of
behavior modification proposed by B. F. Skinner, 1 and the computerized model of the global ecology produced by the authors of The Limits to Growth.2 This kind of reasoning operates within the limits of what is possible
as defined by (1) the available material and human resources, (2) the laws of nature, and (3) the state of knowledge at the time.
But I believe it was hinted at in the words of a young Cambridge undergraduate who told me that what he and most of his friends aimed at in their sexual
behavior were three things: permissiveness, within the range of social decency and acceptance; affection, by which he meant genuine caring and the beginning of real love; and responsibility, which he
defined as readiness to stand up and take the consequences for any and every sort of human contact.
Assertive
behavior is
defined as an honest and appropriate expression of feelings in which a person asserts her or his own rights in ways that do not violate the rights of others.
What is often helpful is dealing with control issues by
defining them
as engaging in controlling
behaviors.
Still, I am not and will never stand with the ones
defining them
as a problem or
as a disruptive
behavior, just because they are so determined on making it their way.
Bullying can be
defined as unsolicited, aggressive
behavior involving an imbalance of power.
But if you just focus on secrecy and the sense of betrayal, the study notes, well, «in theory, any
behavior that is kept secret or evokes a sense of betrayal can be
defined as infidelity.»
On the other hand, clowning —
defined as absurd nonverbal
behavior, such
as making odd facial expressions or sounds, or performing strange or absurd actions — will not only be more effective at making your baby laugh than any other strategy, but also, it will grow more effective the older your baby gets.
Most
define spanking
as any physical contact that involves striking a child for the purpose of stopping a
behavior or action or getting their attention.
I'm not saying that I would do that, but exactly what
behaviors are people
defining as «bullying»?
Despite parents becoming concerned
as well
as exasperated by such
behaviors, these are normal characteristics that
define what is often called the «terrible twos».
To encourage her to keep going and have a lasting involvement in the activity of her choice, I would use rewards to incentivize attendance and clearly
defined good
behavior — something
as simple
as introducing herself to other children, etc..
Emotional abuse of a child is commonly
defined as a pattern of
behavior by parents or caregivers that has negative mental impact on the child.
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.
That lack of stability —
defined as the rotating crop of parent - like figures who transition in and out of kids» lives — is tied to school failure,
behavior problems, drug use and loneliness.
What any one person
defines as «good»
behavior is subjective.
Infant Breastfeeding Assessment Tool (score range: 0 — 12): suboptimal breastfeeding
behavior defined as a score < 11.
She
defined it
as a pattern of coercive
behavior rooted in the need to maintain power or control.
The American Engineers» Council for Professional Development
defines Engineering
as: «The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their
behavior under specific operating conditions; all
as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.»
«Personality is a heavy word to put on a bug,» Marshall says, «but if you
define personality
as individual
behavior responses — well, I've had some spiders, tarantulas of the same species and from the same population, and I can take one out of a box and let it run over my hand, and I have others that just freak out and try to run away.
Information was collected on various eating problems — worries about weight, feeling fat, excessive eating, fasting and excessive exercise, and purging
behaviors —
as well
as binge drinking,
defined as five or more drinks in a row.
More recently, a report by Kevin N. Laland of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and his colleagues in Nature Reviews Genetics, building on an earlier proposal by Robert Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Peter J. Richerson of U.C. Davis, argued that human culture,
defined as any learned
behavior, including technology, has been the dominant natural selection force on modern humans.
aims to increase our collective ability to anticipate the complex consequences of change; gain a better understanding of the dynamics of human and social
behavior as well
as the cognitive and social structures that create and
define change; and help people and organizations better manage profound or rapid change.
Using a mathematical formula that calculates the likelihood of collaboration, he claimed to have proved that cooperative
behavior —
defined as «I do something for you even though it will cost me» — emerged when individuals fell on their swords to save their relatives» genes.
As a result, Rafter says, criminologists are now shifting their attention toward biological reasons for delinquent
behavior after decades of trying to
define crime mainly on the basis of sociological factors.
And good riddance: The study
defined dominance
as Type A
behavior — monopolizing conversation, interrupting others, and competing too hard for attention.
Whenever the data is passed on to functions, which might then send the data out from the smartphone or display other suspicious
behavior as defined in a preset corpus of rules, the pertinent markers are checked.
They
define the condition
as «a pattern of financial
behavior that places an older adult at substantial risk for a considerable loss of resources such that dramatic changes in quality of life would result.»
Adults who binge eat —
defined in the study
as eating unusually large amounts of food in an uncontrolled manner without compensatory
behaviors such
as purging — often struggle with feelings of shame and guilt about their
behavior and have difficulty regulating their emotions, studies have found.