Quotes About Behavior

The behavior of large and complex aggregates of elementary particles, it turns out, is not to be understood in terms of a simple extrapolation of the properties of a few particles. Instead, at each levle of complexity entirely new properties appear, and the understanding of the new behavior requires research which I think is as fundamental in its nature as any other.

Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

If a ferret bites you it is nearly always your own fault.

Is this one of those situations that involves "ethics"? 'Cause I'm a cat , you know. I've never been very good at those.

The Deconditioning Process is one which never ends, for even as we shake ourselves loose from limiting behaviors and beliefs, so too, we tend to form new ones.

The way you do anything is the way you do everything. TOM WAITS

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

While risky behavior might be expected, even praised in a visionary Lead Pastor, second chair leaders are not always known for being risk takers.

If anyone had appeared in just a pair of boxer shorts or swimming trunks, the womenfolk would have had "an attack of the vapors" and the menfolk would have exploded in a rage at the indecency of it. What exactly "an attack of the vapors" was is unclear, because there is no such thing as womenfolk anymore, and there is certainly no such thing as an attack of the vapors.

Old habits die hard.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Other than the epilepsy, Richard had few problems during his first years of school. He liked to make people laugh, and that caused him to be disciplined sometimes, but he was a good student who paid attention in class and tried to do well, work hard, and get along with others. He did not, like Ruben and Robert, fight with the other children.

The virus is fostering a commonality that we weren't aware of, a biological commonality, where someone else's health and behavior can really affect our own—whether they have health insurance, whether they are wearing their mask. It's a rehearsal for climate change in that we recognize that there is no escaping our predicament. There's no other place to go. We're coming to see that we're really all in the same boat.

you are whatever the company you keep is.

That is normal human behavior. We tend to go with strong hunches. System 1 follows a primitive psycho-logic: if it feels true, it is. In the Paleolithic world in which our brains evolved, that's not a bad way of making decisions. Gathering

Social psychologists have long known that getting people to publicly commit to a belief is a great way to freeze it in place, making it resistant to change. The stronger the commitment, the greater the resistance.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.

The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.

each of us has the potential, or mental templates, to be saint or sinner, altruistic or selfish, gentle or cruel, submissive or dominant, sane or mad, good or evil. Perhaps we are born with a full range of capacities, each of which is activated and developed depending on the social and cultural circumstances that govern our lives. I

conditions that make us feel anonymous, when we think that others do not know us or care to, can foster antisocial, self-interested behaviors. My

That seduction or initiation into evil can be understood by recognizing that most actors are not solitary figures improvising on the empty stage of life. Rather, they are often an ensemble of different players, on a stage with various props and changing costumes, scripts, and stage directions from producers and directors.

diffusion of responsibility, in any form it takes, lowers the inhibition against harming others.

The rationale is this: our research will attempt to differentiate between what people bring into a prison situation from what the situation brings out in the people who are there.

even psychologists are people, subject to the same dynamic processes at a personal level that they study at a professional level.