Quotes About Behavior

People are less rational than they are adept at rationalizing--explaining away discrepancies between their private morality and actions contrary to it.

Any deed, for good or evil, that any human being has ever done, you and I could also do--given the same situational forces.

Separating the preacher from the practice, the promise from the outcome, the perceived intention from the consequence is at the crux of resistance because it is too easy to mistake the label for the thing labeled, to deal in symbols and concepts instead of people and their behavior.

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.

As a rule, children shouldn't whine in class, of course -- unless it's at the end of story time. Then it's okay.

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

Female-female aggression (starving, abusing) causes spontaneous abortions. Hrdy notes that dominant, higher-ranking female primates overtly harass subordinate females. Such behaviors are "implicated in delays in maturation, inhibition of ovulation, or in extreme cases, spontaneous abortion by subordinates.

Contemporary adult women, in urban public places, also behave in physically aggressive ways. Like men, women sometimes push and shove each other. However, while doing so, unlike men, women tend not to make eye contact with each other.

Za svoje sedanje življenje je nesmiselno kriviti druge ljudi, Boga ali usodo. Sedanje razmere smo povzro?ili sami in spremenimo jih lahko tako, da stare negativne vzorce obnašanja obrnemo in namesto njih prevzamemo nove, pozitivnejše.

The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences.

I stressed to Neto that the way we treat the population is key to gaining their support. . . . I stressed how the thuggish behavior of the FNLA (robberies, assaults, murders, rapes, unbelievable savagery) engenders widespread hatred even among people who are not politicized. Later, there will be [time for] propaganda, political education, . . . but simply treating people well . . . can garner the massive support of the population.50

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

Les inégalités devant la culture ne sont nulle part aussi marquées que dans le domaine où, en l'absence d'un enseignement organisé, les comportements culturels obéissent aux déterminismes sociaux plus qu'à la logique des goûts et des engouements individuels.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

What you see at a bachelor or bachelorette party is what happens on a recruiting visit.

The boys in junior high get really lewd and say outrageous stuff to the girls. If somebody yelled the stuff at me that I've heard at junior high schools I've visited, I'd be scared and humiliated.

I have visited schools that have music programs and those that don't. I see the way the kids act with each other.

For many years in my laboratory and other laboratories around the world, we've been studying fly behaviors in little flight simulators. You can tether a fly to a little stick. You can measure the aerodynamic forces it's creating. You can let the fly play a little video game by letting it fly around in a visual display.

To diagnose and treat a brain disorder accurately, it would be necessary to look at the brain directly. Looking at behavior alone can miss a vital piece of the puzzle and provide an incomplete, or even a misleading, picture of the child's problems.

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don't think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness.