Fish reared in large groups showed more submissive and less aggressive behaviour to big fish in the group,
social behaviour which greatly enhances the survival chances of smaller fish.»
Anyway RM - in answer to your question, a meme is a belief or attitude or a form of
social behaviour which exists for no obvious genetic purpose, brings no evolutionary advantage, but nevertheless spreads throughout society with alarming rapidity.
Not exact matches
Sevigny said as
social media continues to increase its presence with public commentary on matters such as Question Period —
which doesn't just rely on mainstream media for coverage anymore in a sea of tweets — it may lead to a change in
behaviour of MPs as they attempt to come across in a warmer light to a broader reporting audience.
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, meanwhile, tapped the agency to run a hyper - local UK campaign
which combined sales data with external data around search
behaviour,
social media and weather to forecast pollen count rises or flu outbreaks.
By working to get these recognised as
social evils akin to racism or sexism [2] it has been possible to get towards the goal,
which is that homosexual
behaviour is firmly accepted in society and that society should be indifferent to the form of relationships
which individuals choose to enter or make the basis of their family lives.
The changes in
social structures of moral action,
which previously were strongly linked to and supportive of Christian faith, has important implications both to how we conceive our relationship as Christians to our host society, and how we nurture ethical
behaviour within adherents of the Christian faith who also participate fully as members of this society.
Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the
social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in
which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic
social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling -
behaviour.»
These constantly repeated messages have been shown to be effective agents of
social change: not so much by producing direct change in individual
behaviour, but by slowly affecting perceptions of
social reality and meaning
which underlie
behaviour.
The term holon may be applied to any stable sub-whole in a biological,
social or cognitive hierarchy
which displays rule - governed
behaviour and / or structural Gestalt constancy.
As outlined in our new blog, numerous internationally respected studies make clear the importance of secure father - child attachment — including, for example, work by Dr Paul Ramchandani of Imperial College London
which shows that «disengaged and remote father - child interactions as early as the third month of life» predict
behaviour problems in children when they are older [1] and US research showing that «verbal exchanges between fathers and their infants and between mothers and their infants each, independently and uniquely, predict pre-schoolers»
social competence and lower aggression» [2].
Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by
which their children may garner
social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed
behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.
For example, how do immigrant children fare when faced with a new
social context to
which their fathers» cultural values and
behaviours must be adapted?
The Organisation's offices at Kwadaso Sub-Metro in Kumasi,
which issued the directive said Mr. Haroun - Ahmed's
behaviour on his private
social media handle, breached the Civil Service Law 1993.
But to have value today, Benson's argument needs to be advanced with a new twist: identities are not a given; they are constructed through
social processes — processes
which also condition voting
behaviour.
«Fellows and Members of the College are confronted daily with the health impacts of alcohol use, and also experience the effects of alcohol intoxication on
behaviour, including
social disorder and lawlessness
which sometimes spills over into the hospital environment in general, and Emergency Departments in particular.
Usually, when events come along
which require a higher standard of
behaviour, they singularly fail live up to expectations, relying instead on party - political jeering and
social cack - handedness.
Following last Sunday's attacks on troops locations in Gukak and Gajigana by Boko Haram terrorists» during
which it was reported in the
social media that soldiers deployed by the Nigerian Army to battle insurgency took to their heels when they could not with - stand the firepower of the group, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has warned his men that such
behaviour must not be allowed to repeat itself in the North East.
Successive surveys have shown that Labour loyalties - not just voting
behaviour but emotional identification with the party - declined steeply between 1979 and 1983, when the party had its protracted row about nuclear disarmament and the split
which led to the formation of the
Social Democratic Party.
Existing studies show that impulsiveness is predictive of online risk taking
behaviours, but this additional research with British and Italian young adults highlighted that high self - monitoring — or adapting
behaviour in line with perceived
social norms — was equally predictive of posting risky content,
which Dr White says could mean young people think it's the best way to behave.
A new research study in the International Journal of Business Environment suggests that content providers must take a pragmatic view based on
social consensus to persuade illicit downloaders that their
behaviour is economically and ethically unacceptable
behaviour among their peer group or other
social group to
which they belong.
This is important, as behavioural research has shown that (unconditional) intrinsic motivation often sustains helping
behaviour in the long - term, whereas (conditional) extrinsic incentives only tend to work for as long as the
social incentive is maintained — of
which a 4 - week (summer) challenge is a prime example6.
Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Minnesota and Heidelberg devised a series of games to find out
which factors lead to cooperative
behaviour when people interact in
social and workplace situations.
Old - style «
behaviour therapies»,
which came on line in the 1960s, did nothing to combat the
social stigma attached to being fat.
We are already seeing research into the neuroscience of decision - making and
social behaviours such as neuro - economics,
which models choice
behaviour mathematically.
We know that packs of wolves form complex
social hierarchies, and that this
behaviour is likely to have evolved because it is good for the pack,
which in turn helps protect its members.
This included less activity in the putamen, thalamus, cerebellum amongst other areas, and more activity in the peripheral cortical areas
which are also linked to
social perception and
behaviour.
This took place with the aid of a standardized questionnaire (on the basis of a
Social Responsiveness Scale — SRS), in
which 65
behaviour patterns were evaluated by the parents before the start of group therapy, at the end of the intervention as well as three months after the end of the intervention in order to measure stability.
They found striking differences at several genes,
which can explain both the abnormal type of egg production that leads to reproduction without males, and the unique
social parasitism
behaviour.
People with ASD can have varying levels of impairment across three common areas,
which might include: deficits in
social interactions and reciprocal understanding, repetitive
behaviour and narrow interests, and impairment in language and communication.
«This is in contrast to a handful of previous smaller studies
which have shown some positive effects on repetitive
behaviours,
social memory and emotion processing.
Autism is a complex condition of unknown cause in
which children exhibit reduced interest in other people, impaired
social communication skills and repetitive
behaviours.
While this study goes some way towards establishing a causal relationship between the gut microbiome and
social behaviour in rodents, the extent to
which these findings can relate to human neurodevelopmental conditions remains to be established.
Publishing in the journal Cell a group of scientists have published their research working on mice
which reports that a high fat diet of the mother can bring about a shift in gut microbes that negatively impacts the
social behaviour of the offspring mice.
The core difficulties in
social communication,
which can mean children not even being able to communicate verbally, and the rigid and repetitive
behaviours usually have a profound effect on development into adulthood and result in estimated # 1 - 1.5 million lifetime societal costs per child.
To identify methodological categories, the outcome of each paper was classified according to a set of binary variables: 1 - outcome measured on biological material; 2 - outcome measured on human material; 3 - outcome exclusively behavioural (measures of
behaviours and interactions between individuals,
which in studies on people included surveys, interviews and
social and economic data); 4 - outcome exclusively non-behavioural (physical, chemical and other measurable parameters including weight, height, death, presence / absence, number of individuals, etc...).
The current teachings of the three R's and simpler sciences and most of our religious and
social philosophies have failed to relate us correctly to our past
which so largely controls our physical
behaviour and mental attitudes.
All three characters engage in the kind of sexual practices and dizzying
social behaviour that will ensure viewers stick around for every minute of the eight episodes, the first two of
which are being directed by James Kent — who made the film Testament Of Youth with Alicia Vikander.
Arguments about the national curriculum, to some, has too much focus on these «general capabilities»,
which include skills like critical and creative thinking, ethical
behaviours, personal and
social skills and intercultural understanding.
These rules should require
social media companies to introduce cyberbullying alerts
which flags bullying
behaviour to moderators and sends notifications to young people being targeted.
This is very important as a guide for unacceptable
behaviour, especially as bullying can take different forms: physical, verbal, technological and
social, and may include
behaviour which is very subtle.
They use protective
behaviours when they become sexually active
which results in increased protection, both physical and
social / emotional.
There were a range of
social effects as well: children were seen to be negotiating items with other children,
which is quite a higher order thinking skill; they were modelling
behaviour on others, so they could actually see how children were playing with some of the equipment and then being able to join in (so it was a lot more inclusive, they were able to see how some of the children used some of the equipment); and they were really working together, using teamwork skills and creating these different objects and structures and stations to play around in the school playground.
Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning programmes,
which focus on improving student
behaviour and attitudes, and on the ethos of the school
Other approaches, such as Parental engagement and
Social and emotional learning programmes, are often associated with reported improvements in school ethos or discipline, but are not included in this summary
which is limited to interventions that focus directly on
behaviour.
Sociology is mainly concerned with the study of
social behaviours and involves investigating and analysing of the arguments
which lead to
social reforms and changes.
At Jellybooks we are launching just such a model (Project «Pineapple») in the form of
social group buying based on users past reading
behaviour which rewards readers with discounts for sharing recommendations and buying books with others.
ESG investing ESG stands for environmental,
social and corporate governance, the areas in
which good
behaviour is particularly sought.
«It is generally accepted that dogs go through a sensitive period, the socialisation period, during
which social experiences and stimuli have a greater effect on the development of their temperament and
behaviour than if they occur in later life,» write the authors.
«It is argued that through the process of
social learning theory (a theoretical framework in
which criminal
behaviour is learned) that some offenders will gain positive stimuli from engaging in animal cruelty
which may lead to aggression towards humans — this is known as the «graduation hypothesis».
Compulsive
behaviour in our study was not associated with amicability or sociability towards humans or dogs, or aggressiveness towards dogs,
which are relevant estimates of canine
social interaction abilities.