Behavior
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So they're all well documented deviations from rational
behavior.
And this is a route of exhibition gardens, and edible towpaths, and bee-friendly sites, and the story of pollinators, and it's a route that we designed that takes people through the whole of our town, past our cafes and our small shops, through our market, not just to and fro from the supermarket, and we're hoping that, in changing people's footfall around our town, we're also changing their
behavior.
Now, unfortunately, almost every single problem you can think of to do with human
behavior
lies in this middle region.
Anyway, I was looking through this book, wondering if I was much crazier than I thought I was, or maybe it's not a good idea to diagnose yourself with a mental disorder if you're not a trained professional, or maybe the psychiatry profession has a kind of strange desire to label what's essentially normal human
behavior
as a mental disorder.
From a phototherapy standpoint, maybe not the best
behavior.
Similarly, using a randomized control trial in rural Pakistan, Atif Rahman and his colleagues showed that lady health visitors, who are community maternal health workers in Pakistan's health care system, could deliver cognitive
behavior
therapy for mothers who were depressed, again showing dramatic differences in the recovery rates.
It's proportionally much bigger in humans than in any other species, and it's involved in a whole range of high level cognitive functions, things like decision-making, planning, planning what you're going to do tomorrow or next week or next year, inhibiting inappropriate behavior, so stopping yourself saying something really rude or doing something really stupid.
You'll see that this is exactly the same condition, only in the no-director condition they just have to remember to apply this somewhat arbitrary rule, whereas in the director condition, they have to remember to take into account the director's perspective in order to guide their ongoing
behavior.
In other words, everything you need to do in order to remember the rule and apply it seems to be fully developed by mid-adolescence, whereas in contrast, if you look at the last two gray bars, there's still a significant improvement in the director condition between mid-adolescence and adulthood, and what this means is that the ability to take into account someone else's perspective in order to guide ongoing behavior, which is something, by the way, that we do in everyday life all the time, is still developing in mid-to-late adolescence.
They're parodied, sometimes even demonized in the media for their kind of typical teenage
behavior.
So almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today, but today we try to understand their
behavior
in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.
It's our health, our social behavior, and our productivity as well.
And the Essex study which has just been done in the U.K., which incidentally showed that when you do this, you do not just make a room that's suitable for hearing-impaired children, you make a room where
behavior
improves, and results improve significantly, this found that sending a child out of area to a school that does have such a room, if you don't have one, costs 90,000 pounds a year.
It's about designing, not appearance, but experience, so that we have spaces that sound as good as they look, that are fit for purpose, that improve our quality of life, our health and well being, our social
behavior
and our productivity.
So I'm watching this
behavior
in the classroom, and what do I notice?
So when I tell people about this, that our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior, and our
behavior
can change our outcomes, they say to me, "It feels fake."
And we can use that to sort of carve up the
behavior.
Because I want to share with you today a piece of science that has changed how I think about everything, from the
behavior
of neurotransmitters in our emotional brain, to the dynamics of our interpersonal relationships.
Your genital
behavior
just doesn't necessarily predict your subjective experience of liking and wanting.
It's generating
behavior
that's useful.
Traditional business wisdom holds that trust is earned by predictable behavior, but when everything is consistent and standardized, how do you create meaningful experiences?
At the end of the day, as hyperconnectivity and transparency expose companies
' behavior
in broad daylight, staying true to their true selves is the only sustainable value proposition.
When we actually looked at not just self-reported political orientation, but voting behavior, we were able to look geographically across the nation.
So it not only predicted self-reported political orientation, but actual voting
behavior.
Lack of stimulation often leads to self-stimulating behaviors like hand-flapping, rocking back and forth, or aggression, and in some institutions, psychiatric drugs are used to control the
behavior
of these children, whilst in others, children are tied up to prevent them from harming themselves or others.
But I'm going to argue that in reasonable doses, actually the very game I showed you at the beginning, those action-packed shooter games have quite powerful effects and positive effects on many different aspects of our
behavior.
So in the same way that we actually see the effects of video games on people's behavior, we can use brain imaging and look at the impact of video games on the brain, and we do find many changes, but the main changes are actually to the brain networks that control attention.
Generating tissues of predictable density and
behavior
is the second piece, and will be really key towards getting these models to be adopted for drug discovery.
Ten percent of the species actually make a ball, and this ball they roll away from the dung source, usually bury it at a remote place away from the dung source, and they have a very particular
behavior
by which they are able to roll their balls.
And it was this particular little behavior, the dance, that we thought was important, because look, it takes a pause every now and then, and then heads off in the direction that it wants to go in.
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