Human nature is in deep trouble and it'll take a bit
more than behavior modification to fix it.
Francis Crick famously asserted that human life is «
no more than the behavior of... nerve cells and their associated molecules.»
This is an issue of dominance
more than behavior.
Unfortunately, it appears that Carmen Tisch's recent drunken escapade at the Clyfford Still Museum was nothing
more than the behavior of a woman with an alcohol problem and not, in fact, performance art.
Not exact matches
This recommendation comes from finance professor Anat Admati, who says: «Economists tend to think that beliefs and
behavior are guided by incentives and rational processing of information, but I know that there is
more to it
than this simple model, and that other disciplines have much to say.
That appears to be shaping the
behavior of news consumers on the platform
more than some publishers might like.
The many ETFs, which are by nature
more tradeable
than traditional index funds, can lead investors to unnecessarily deviate from simple buy - and - hold
behavior.
A new study has found that, for many, being «liked» on social media is
more important
than being liked in reality, which can lead to odd
behavior and an inability to enjoy life in the moment.
According to Turkish dissidents, social media and external sources such as VICE are even
more important
than they would be elsewhere because local media outlets are unwilling to report on corruption or the
behavior of Turkish police and armed forces.
«What we might be identifying here is something much
more to do with help - seeking
behavior than anything to do with a psychiatric illness,» University of California, Los Angeles professor of psychiatry Jonathan Flint told The Guardian.
O'Keefe talks about brand
behavior and brand touch as being
more important
than brand voice.
Most experts say this sort of
behavior will hurt
more people
than it will help.
On Instagram alone, there are
more than 150 million active users, which means there is a wealth of data about user demographics and related engagement
behavior that lives across all social channels.
«In one of our studies we found that people rated masculine risk - taking
behaviors as
more risky
than feminine risk - taking
behaviors, even when they were matched for how risky they were,» she says.
As Fain points out, «The ability to
more fully describe and understand a consumer's
behavior is
more complete
than ever before, and that kind of data will make AI marketing tools even
more effective over the next few years.»
For the first time, researchers actually got on planes and carefully observed the
behavior of
more than 1,500 passengers.
As Stulberg tells Science of Us,
behavior scientist K. Anders Ericsson discovered in the 1990's that what separates great performers — musicians, artists, chess players, even physicians — from everyone else was not that they practiced
more than their peers.
People are much
more likely to comply with a positive request
than a negative complaint on their
behavior.
We really don't know exactly what social media is doing to our kids» brains and
behaviors, at least no
more so
than my parents knew what TV was doing to mine.
However, Sterck said, the study shows no
more proof of tactical deception
than her own work with long - tailed macaques, and the gelada's apparent tailoring of vocalizations could just be a learned
behavior.
The study's bottom line seems to be that, sure, there is still plenty of sexism when it comes to women's
behavior at the negotiating table, but if you're
more interested at any given time in getting a good deal
than challenging stereotypes, then flirting may be the way to go.
The company recommended that customers install the new Windows update if they «are running an impacted device,» meaning their computers are automatically rebooting
more frequently
than usual or are exhibiting other strange
behaviors.
Thankfully, though, science is squarely on the side of goal - setters — they are ten times
more likely to change their
behavior than non-goal-setters.
These quirky differences in consumer
behavior between members of the two parties matters
more to marketers
than to politicians.
Data on users and their preferences and
behavior is the Holy Grail for most advertisers, and the reality is that Google and Facebook have orders of magnitude
more data
than their nearest competitors, and
more ways to slice and dice it.
This is Trump's chance to prove there's nothing
more damaging
than the vile comments and
behavior he's already demonstrated, based on the «Access Hollywood» tapes and the comments of former «Apprentice» cast and crew.
The Qualtrics study found that when Millennials are awake, they rarely go
more than five hours without checking their phone, which is a sign of addictive
behavior.
«The data we're seeing suggest it may be
more a change in shopping
behavior than a lack of consumer demand.»
Whether you capture data from website analytics, webforms, email marketing with open rates or social media stats, you now have
more visibility into the
behavior of a prospect
than ever before.
Goals give us
more than just a target to aim for — they help us change our
behavior today.
Now, as Silicon Valley is finally coming to terms with the fact that bad
behavior can do
more than cause a temporary headache, concerned LPs are taking notice.
In a study done last month in the journal Environment and
Behavior, researchers at Cornell University manipulated the gaze of the cartoon rabbit on Trix cereal boxes and found that adult subjects were
more likely to choose Trix over competing brands if the rabbit was looking at them rather
than away.
However, the Fed's careful wording belies what is happening on the ground in the economy, which smacks
more of late - stage business cycle
behavior than a perfectly balanced environment.
As the year progressed, CEO Travis Kalanick resigned amid an investor revolt, many of Uber's other top executives resigned or were forced out, shady business practices were revealed, and
more than 20 employees were fired as a result of an investigation into bad
behavior in the workplace that includes sexual harassment.
Dopamine is one of the most important chemicals in our brain, driving many of the
behaviors that make humans
more sophisticated
than other species.
In fact, while loving parents usually avoid truly toxic
behavior, they're actually
more prone
than less engaged parents to certain missteps that can lead their children to struggle later on.
This is one of several dubious indicators that, while it may appear to be accurate, teaches us
more about the fallibility of statistics
than the
behavior of the market.
They suggest that impression management
behaviors are actually much
more complicated
than we realize.
Despite the TV industry's perception that it is at the top of the entertainment food chain, at some point the impact of this shift becomes inescapable, just as newspaper and music companies eventually had to admit that the shifts they were seeing in consumer and advertising
behavior were
more than just a speed bump.
If augmented reality games continue to grow in popularity as a category, there may be
more pressure
than ever for governments to step in and do something about the dumbest
behavior this side of drinking and driving.
The problem is that most wellness programs are nothing
more than lip service, passive - aggressive attempts to control employee
behavior and not serious attempts to simplify getting, and staying, healthy.
Nike Plus and Nike Fuel Band have used massive amounts of data to encourage people around the world to change their every day
behavior, inspiring
more people to run longer, harder, faster and farther
than ever before.
But good reasons may evaporate over time while the rules get stuck in our
behaviors, and then we're left with little
more than a silly habit.
While teaching organizational
behavior at Cornell University for
more than 35 years, I've had the privilege of training numerous young people who have now moved on to be leaders in the private and public sector.
We all know that good feedback is essential to cultivating the
behaviors and outcomes we want while correcting those we don't, but what makes some people
more effective at feedback
than others?
On Tuesday, Whole Foods released its predictions for 2017's hottest food trends — a list that's compiled by experts who track consumer
behavior at
more than 400 of the chain's stores.
That was followed in 2012 by Victoria newspaper publisher David Black's much
more ambitious but somewhat speculative Kitimat Clean project, consisting of a $ 25 - billion oil refinery in the northern town that would create jobs and taxes in B.C. while ensuring that the exports were of finished products rather
than the diluted bitumen from the oilsands whose
behavior in the case of a marine spill is virtually unknown.
The first study was conducted in April 2015 and surveyed
more than 500 millennials, focusing on specific shopping
behaviors.
And the thing about narratives is that they drive
behavior in ways that are
more powerful and profound
than people readily acknowledge — for good and bad.
If it takes
more evidence to accept a change for the better in someone's character
than it requires to believe someone has changed for the worse, then equivalent
behaviors will warrant punishment while not qualifying for reward.