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Our first response was to try to change drivers' behavior, so we developed speed limits and enforced them through fines.
And when we assume that privacy is impossible in digital media, we completely write off and excuse her boyfriend's bad, bad behavior.
So most of the time, nobody's challenging our good person identity, and so we're not thinking too much about the ethical implications of our decisions, and our model shows that we're then spiraling towards less and less ethical behavior most of the time.
So the ethical implications of our decisions become really salient, and in those cases, we spiral towards more and more good person behavior, or, to be more precise, towards more and more behavior that makes us feel like a good person, which isn't always the same, of course.
We perhaps are overestimating how much our self-interest is driving our decisions, and perhaps we don't realize how much our self-view as a good person is affecting our behavior, that in fact, we're working so hard to protect that good person identity, to keep out of that red zone, that we're not actually giving ourselves space to learn from our mistakes and actually be better people.
If we know that we are being watched and monitored, we will change our behavior.
And what I found was that while young women may feel entitled to engage in sexual behavior, they don't necessarily feel entitled to enjoy it.
They are, however, engaging in other behavior.
And when we ignore that, when we label that as "not sex," that opens the door to risky behavior and disrespect.
In the largest ever survey ever conducted on American sexual behavior, they reported pain in their sexual encounters 30 percent of the time.
So, often we think that thought changes behavior, but behavior very often changes our thought.
How on earth can predicting the behavior of 230 million voters in this country be that precise?
Because that's sadistic behavior, and we know, psychiatry knows, only one percent of Americans are sadistic.
Most of the time, we are in institutions, so the Stanford Prison Study is a study of the power of institutions to influence individual behavior.
Recent research has shown that milk doesn't just grow the body, it fuels behavior and shapes neurodevelopment.
They have different sexual behavior.
And we thought: Is it possible that the mother is somehow reprogramming the gene of her offspring through her behavior?
We have the same absurd behavior in relation to technology.
So obesity becomes a problem of individual decision-making, of personal behavior, personal responsibility and lack of physical activity.
At 60? Get a good job, or go back to the very criminal behavior that led him to prison in the first place?
Socializing, sexual behavior, and drugs are just a few examples of things and experiences that also activate the reward system.
They can certainly make people change behavior and even change laws.
But Einstein used an ingenious argument, showing that the behavior of small particles randomly moving around in a liquid, known as Brownian motion, could be precisely predicted by the collisions of millions of invisible atoms.
The words you see and hear in everyday advertising have been crafted to appeal to you and affect your behavior, as have the soundbites and talking points of political campaigns which rarely present the most nuanced perspective on the issues.
When it comes to our own bad behavior, well, we seem to develop sudden-onset amnesia, or we can always justify it as an appropriate response to the latest outrage from our opponents.
Taken to the extreme, this behavior is classified as a psychological disorder called narcissistic personality disorder.
Yes! Anything that promotes honest reflection on their own behavior and caring for others, like psychotherapy or practicing compassion towards others, can be helpful.
Also, psychotic symptoms, like disorganized speech and behavior, delusional thoughts, paranoia, and hallucinations can emerge during extreme phases of bipolar disorder.
And we now know that ship noise increases levels of stress hormones in whales and can disrupt feeding behavior.
Air guns, which produce loud, low-frequency "whoomps" every 10 to 20 seconds, changed the swimming and vocal behavior of whales.
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