Behavior
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We still don’t know what causes this behavior, but the result is that the body treats joint tissue like a foreign invader.
We're looking for this
behavior
among white voters or, really, non-black voters.
If we understand the root causes of the
behavior
and where it manifests itself and where it doesn't, we can start to design solutions to it.
It's a function of whether a goal in a
behavior
is achieved or whether the individual is rewarded in the
behavior.
We look in cortical areas that control specific movements, and the sequences of movements that are required in the behavior, and so forth.
Think about the changes that occur in the brain of a child through the course of acquiring their movement
behavior
abilities in general.
When they spot someone showing signs of sociopathic behavior, they shower them with love, they fix them.
Because their
behavior
is impacted by light pollution.
It's exactly the same
behavior
though.
So instead, people who want to understand emotion, typically end up studying what's called motivated behavior, which is code for "what the mouse does when it really, really wants cheese."
And you could have them engaged in some emotional task or social
behavior
or abstract reasoning, things you could never study in mice.
I'll tell you a little bit about irrational
behavior.
I will tell you a little bit about irrational behavior, and I want to start by giving you some examples of visual illusion as a metaphor for rationality.
But if you look at this plot, you can see that countries that we think about as very similar, actually exhibit very different
behavior.
How many of you believe that if you went to renew your license tomorrow, and you went to the DMV, and you encountered one of these forms, that it would actually change your own
behavior?
Rasputin never ceased his scandalous behavior, and they were skeptical of his so-called powers and thought he was corrupting the royal family.
Even when on its worst behavior, I find myself automatically defending the USA from the sneers of green-eyed Europhiles playing their Greek card to Roman trumps.
I spent many, many happy years studying elephant
behavior
in a tent, in Samburu National Reserve, under the guideship of professor Fritz Vollrath and Iain Douglas-Hamilton, studying for my PhD and understanding the complexities of elephant societies.
They will test new delivery methods, target the environments where parasites thrive and influence
behavior
change.
When faced with particularly difficult setbacks or complexities, a really interesting
behavior
emerges: decoration.
And over the past 35 years, I've studied
behavior
on the basis of everything from genes through neurotransmitters, dopamine, things like that, all the way through circuit analysis.
One of the reasons why an institution is not in itself enough is that we have got to persuade people around the world to change their
behavior
as well, so you need that global ethic of fairness and responsibility across the generations.
I'm not talking about airy-fairy stuff about culture or psychology, or
behavior.
And I think we really need to be socially minded and think this could be quite dramatic in terms of change of behavior, but it needs to be to reduce the impact that we're potentially facing.
Other cues, like the buzzing of a wasp, elicit very negative emotions and quite dramatic avoidance
behavior
in some people.
In this way, these cues can control
behavior
when it's no longer appropriate, and that's how they become maladaptive.
The first time that I was victimized and became the target of inappropriate workplace behavior, I hadn't even left university.
When I was first targeted with inappropriate
behavior
at work, I fell into a depression, and I almost left academia altogether.
The public was captivated by her unique perspective and secretive
behavior.
Well, if people see the world in such a way that life sucks, then their
behavior
will follow automatically from that.
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