Sentences with phrase «explain differences in behavior»

The founder of behaviorism, J. B. Watson (1930), stated that differences in the environment can explain all differences in behavior.

They suggest that this might help explain differences in behavior.

Not exact matches

The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the election and 152 after, with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might offer alternate explanations for the shift.

Any small differences in their divorce rates and divorce rates in the general population can easily be explained by ordinary things such as Christians encouraging behaviors that increase the chances a marriage will be successful.

Newport said that the biggest difference between very religious and nonreligious Americans is in healthy behavior, which is mostly explained by a negative correlation between smoking and religiosity.

«But differences in sexual behavior do not explain the differences that we see between men and women in oral HPV infection and HPV - related cancer...

And all of these differences in sexual behavior across age cohorts or generations do explain the differences that we see in oral HPV prevalence and in HPV - related oropharyngeal cancer across the generations and why the rate of this cancer is increasing...

«Our findings are crucial in that they help identify potential brain biomarkers that, when taken into context with behavioral differences, may help identify which adolescents are at risk for dangerous and pathological behaviors in the future,» Dewitt explained.

Thirty - five years ago, researchers studying chimpanzees in the wild noticed that neighboring communities had distinct grooming behaviors that could not be explained by differences in their environments.

Brain differences may also help explain why introverts are less likely to engage in risky behavior.

But just as much of the racial achievement gap can be explained by out - of - school factors, so too, I suspect, can much of the racial suspensions gap be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors.

Recognizing that disparities in disciplinary rates may be caused by a range of factors, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice said in a joint letter that these differences can not be explained by more frequent or more serious behavior by students of color, but rather, «schools may be engaging in racial discrimination that violates the federal civil rights law.»

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

Now that we have established that boundary participation rates are different across the city in ways that systematically change with neighborhood characteristics, we can test whether differences in neighborhood characteristics can explain school choice behaviors across the city.

The ALA report points to a number of factors that could explain the disparity, including differences in socioeconomic status, big business behavior and environmental exposure.

For example, some have found significant differences between children with divorced and continuously married parents even after controlling for personality traits such as depression and antisocial behavior in parents.59 Others have found higher rates of problems among children with single parents, using statistical methods that adjust for unmeasured variables that, in principle, should include parents» personality traits as well as many genetic influences.60 And a few studies have found that the link between parental divorce and children's problems is similar for adopted and biological children — a finding that can not be explained by genetic transmission.61 Another study, based on a large sample of twins, found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted depression in adulthood even with genetic resemblance controlled statistically.62 Although some degree of selection still may be operating, the weight of the evidence strongly suggests that growing up without two biological parents in the home increases children's risk of a variety of cognitive, emotional, and social problems.

Biological Biological risk factors have often been cited to explain gender differences in aggressive behavior.

I saw a symposium of researchers who used attachment theory to explain differences in sexual behavior.

Marital interaction, family organization, and differences in parenting behavior: explaining variations across family interaction contexts.

We attempted to test empirically whether our patient - control cortical thickness difference in left pregenual RACC - mOFC was better explained by problems of affect regulation or externalizing behavior problems.

Part of what might explain these differences comes from work suggesting that youths with disruptive behavior disorders may actually show lower neural sensitivity to rewards, leading them to engage in more sensation - seeking and reward - seeking behavior to compensate for this lack of sensitivity (see [84] for a review).

Static theories postulate that the variation in criminal behavior is explained by individual differences in latent criminal propensity, and that these individual differences remain constant over time (Ezell and Cohen 2005).

Exaggeration of gender typical patterns in couples with a depressed partner could also explain the lack of significant differences between depressed persons and their partners to the extent that different behaviors are amplified for dyads with a male vs. female depressed spouse.