Sentences with phrase «study human behaviour»

< / p. have also studied human behaviour (as you seem to have) within my elective psychology classes during my years as a university student whilst gaining my degree in politics (during my thirties when extended education in the humanities meant something to me).

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Jennifer Berdahl is Professor of Leadership Studies: Gender and Diversity, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division at UBC Sauder School of Business.

ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

I have spent a long time studying spiritual human behaviours.

It aims at the objective study and recording of human behaviour.

«This study is an inaccurate assessment of human behaviour.

[8] Indeed, studies on human behaviour seem to indicate an overall tendency for selfishness to dominate when individuals act at the collective level.

Their research covers the full span of human behaviour, from economics to education, sociology, geography, linguistics and social anthropology, psychology to social work and even business and management studies.

Carol Ward at the University of Missouri in Columbia points out that there are too many differences between chimps and early hominins to draw firm conclusions about early human behaviour from chimp studies.

The scientists are now expanding their research to larger numbers of animals and they are also planning a study to look at addiction - like behaviours in obese people to see how well their results translate to humans.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

Indirectly this study also inspects the role of time zone and time advance in human behaviour.

In a new study published in Nature Human Behaviour, Eleanor Power of the Santa Fe Institute writes that active religious participation may benefit practitioners by strengthening social bonds.

«This is one of the few studies to explore how pollution from human activity impacts schooling behaviour in fish.

«In an internationally - significant breakthrough, our study showed pindolol was able to reduce ethanol / alcohol consumption, particularly in relation to binge drinking, a key behaviour observed in human alcohol dependence.»

Dr Bill Bateman, Senior Lecturer at Curtin's Department of Environment & Agriculture, led the study that proved eastern grey squirrels were able to modify their behaviour in urban environments and prevent unnecessary responses when humans acted in a predictable manner, such as staying on the footpath.

Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras at the UCM - ISCIII Joint Centre for Research into Human Evolution and Behaviour in Madrid, Spain, and his team studied 17 of the skulls (see photo).

Its study, titled «Imagined Speech Influences Perceived Loudness of Sound» and published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, offers new insights into the nature of brain activity.

In a novel study, «Personality Development through Natural Language,» published in the international journal, Nature: Human Behaviour, Kevin Lanning, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a professor of psychology in Florida Atlantic University's Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, together with FAU Wilkes Honors College alumna Rachel (Evans) Pauletti, and collaborators Laura A. King, Ph.D., University of Missouri, and Dan P. McAdams, Ph.D., Northwestern University, examined how personality maturation or development was reflected in natural language.

Animal behaviour researchers in the UK and Brazil have found that dogs lick their mouths as a response to angry human faces, according to new study.

I have called this discipline «quirkology» — the use of scientific methods to study quirky human behaviour, or quirky methods to probe weightier topics.

The study, published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics represents an important step in our understanding of how the hypothalamus and oxytocin control appetite and behaviour, says Dr Banka, who is also a Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Saint Mary's Hospital at Manchester.

Haslam studies the evolution of behaviour and culture and thinks archaeology has focused too much on the highly unusual human animal.

That book, Beast and Man: The roots of human nature, drew on her studies of animal behaviour.

Economist Gabriel Kreindler of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge scrambled to secure human - study approval and funding for a survey of driver behaviour during the traffic restrictions.

«It's a bit of a departure from the way we've typically studied personality in the past,» says Connelly, who is an expert on organizational behaviour and human resources.

Despite their ubiquity, there's been precious little effort spent evaluating whether these programs actually work, writes Daniel Koehler, director of the German Institute on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies based in Stuttgart, in a commentary published today in Nature Human Behaviour.

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.

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...).

«Emerging studies have suggested that pathogenic and non-pathogenic gut bacteria might influence mood - related symptoms and even behaviour in animals and humans.

The undergraduate program of study focuses on human movement and includes anatomy and physiology, biomechanics, motor behaviour, athletic training, and sport psychology.

The delicate balance between the human microbiome and the development of psychopathologies is particularly interesting given the ease with which the microbiome can be altered by external factors, such as diet, 23 exposure to antimicrobials24, 25 or disrupted sleep patterns.26 For example, a link between antibiotic exposure and altered brain function is well evidenced by the psychiatric side - effects of antibiotics, which range from anxiety and panic to major depression, psychosis and delirium.1 A recent large population study reported that treatment with a single antibiotic course was associated with an increased risk for depression and anxiety, rising with multiple exposures.27 Bercik et al. 28 showed that oral administration of non-absorbable antimicrobials transiently altered the composition of the gut microbiota in adult mice and increased exploratory behaviour and hippocampal expression of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), while intraperitoneal administration had no effect on behaviour.

The study, published by Springer in the Animal Cognition journal, suggests that the reason for cats» unresponsive behaviour might be traced back to the early domestication of the species, contrasting this with the relationship of humans to dogs.

It is also only through recent studies comparing the behaviour of dogs and hand reared wolves that we have seen how only dogs have evolved to follow a human point when looking for something or to seek human help when they can't open a box with food in it.

But they were conducted at a time when our understanding of both human and animal behaviour was in its infancy and our ability to study it was very limited.

Not only do all large CBEs fit the dictionary of puppy mill, but a study published in the Journal of Applied Animal Behaviour Science found that «Common to virtually all CBEs are the following: large numbers of dogs; maximally efficient use of space by housing dogs in or near the minimum space permitted by law; housing breeding dogs for their entire reproductive lives — in most cases, years — in their cages or runs; dogs rarely if ever permitted out of their primary enclosures for exercise or play; absence of toys or other forms of enrichment; minimal to no positive human interaction or companionship; and minimal to no health care.»

And as a study in the Journal of Applied Animal Behaviour Science found, «Common to virtually all CBEs are the following: large numbers of dogs; maximally efficient use of space by housing dogs in or near the minimum space permitted by law; housing breeding dogs for their entire reproductive lives — in most cases, years — in their cages or runs; dogs rarely if ever permitted out of their primary enclosures for exercise or play; absence of toys or other forms of enrichment; minimal to no positive human interaction or companionship; and minimal to no health care.»

So... what I'm getting at is, studies like these are fine, but they don't address perfectly normal, appropriate behaviour of domestic dogs raised to be productive members of human society. . .

A recent study suggested that tail chasing may relate to autism [26] and, in addition, the first gene to be associated with canine compulsive behaviour has also been linked to human autism [22].

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.

Studies into a dog's behaviour established they are a lot more focused and always ready for a new challenge that humans send their way, literally lapping up the experience with relish.

Sea Lion Island is a very good place to study elephant seal behaviour, because seals are accustomed to human beings, and, therefore, show a fully natural behaviour even when observed from close distance.

If you studied history, philosophy, psychology, sociology and economics (and economics used to consider all these elements) you might realise that human behaviour is a bit more complex than â??

He also surveyed the resources question in an analysis largely bereft of economics, but his most remarkable and statement was perhaps his suggestion that studies of overcrowding among rats could tell us something about the human behaviour we might expect:

The evolution of the rogue trader narrative and other high profile scandals such as LIBOR has been a fascinating study in human behaviour and regulatory response.

Take heart — for, according to a study, smartphone addiction could be a hyper - social behaviour that stems from the healthy human desire to socialise.

Humans can adapt and change when needed, much more so than a robot which reaches conclusions by studying known behaviours.»

Countless studies have backed up what most of us intuitively understand — human beings are social animals hardwired to «mirror» the behaviour of those around them.

Although well studied with computational modelling approaches (Smith et al. 2008), the study of culture — gene coevolutionary theory of human behaviour has not yet received widespread empirical attention.

Taken together, these studies underscore the utility of incorporating cultural traits, such as individualism — collectivism, in macro -(e.g. cross-population) and micro-scale (e.g. within - population) models of GxE factors underlying complex affective disorders and the importance of culture — gene coevolutionary theory for understanding typical and atypical human behaviour, more broadly construed.