Sentences with phrase «explaining patterns of behavior»

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Sociobiology seeks to explain human ethical intuitions in terms of inherited patterns of behavior favoring the propagation of at least some of an individual's genes.

«Understanding animals» movement patterns and the encounters they bring about is a key step in characterizing a population's mating system and essential for determining how behavior both facilitates and is subject to sexual selection,» explained Kamath, a postdoctoral scholar in UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.

«Drunkorexia refers to a complex pattern of drinking - related behaviors that take place before, during, and after a drinking event,» explained Dipali V. Rinker, a research assistant professor in the department of psychology at the University of Houston.

«Research in mammals, birds, fish, and insects shows individual patterns of behavior that can't be easily explained.

«To date, research into resilience has tended to take into account a very extensive range of social, psychological, and even genetic factors that positively influence mental flexibility, such as social support, certain personality traits, and typical behavior patterns,» explained Professor Raffael Kalisch, one of the authors of the current publication and the director of the Neuroimaging Center, a central research platform of the Mainz University Medical Center and the Research Center on Translational Neurosciences.

To look for patterns of behavior that may explain achievement, a careful analyst examines subjects across the distribution — middling and poor performers as well as those at the top.

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Attachment theory also explains unhealthy development, as insecurely attached mourn lost attachments (think about someone who is legally married but has been emotionally divorced for a long time), engage in inconsistent attachment behaviors (think attack and defend, or pursue and distance patterns), suffer ongoing attachment injury (ongoing negative sentiment override), may experience attachment panic (maintain physical and emotional control over their partners), or maintain multiple attachments for fear of losing or being swallowed by one (who have affairs).

Abnormal psychology is the study of abnormal behavior in order to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning.

The authors explain how to use the PTR - YC model with any child who engages in repeated pattern of challenging behavior that clearly interferes with the child's social - emotional development.»

Prior research has largely focused on the negative influence of peers and negative patterns of parent — child interactions to explain risky and unethical consumer behaviors.

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.