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behaviour

[bih-heyv-yer]

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noun Chiefly British.

behavior.

Usage note
See -or¹.

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Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

If you give her a good grade, you reward her bad behaviour.

Britain's latest crime worry is anti-social behaviour.

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Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

If you give her a good grade, you reward her bad behaviour.

Britain's latest crime worry is anti-social behaviour.

Changes in individual behaviour are indeed important, it has a ripple effect.

That's the point of the article: public education to start changing behaviour.

The behaviour and lifestyle of the salamander remain a mystery.

Set up to promote courtesy and considerate social behaviour.

For intellectuals, far from being highly individualistic and non-conformist people, follow certain regular patterns of behaviour.

Nothing upsets voters more than anti-social behaviour.

Time is of course, not far when a nuclear chemist will explain sun's behaviour and the composition of solar wind.

He pervately conveted riches to rags through his cunning behaviour.

Google itself acts as a restraining influence on their behaviour.

Because a treaty is made between sovereign nations, it needs to include incentives to persuade countries to alter their behaviour.

It does affect his behaviour as he cannot sleep and thus becomes irritable and unhappy.

The completion of one behaviour leads directly to the next behaviour, in sort of a cascade of events unfolding in a set order.

How odd for a professor of human behaviour to not understand that.

Cocaine had no effect on nicotine-induced behaviour.

Who knows, maybe it would be an improvement over default human behaviour.

Perhaps, bad behaviour is a way for teens to draw attention to situations they find unbearable.

Mathematical patterns rule the behaviour of molecules in the nucleus.

Bad upbringing and the lack of manners is the primary cause of the rude behaviour in our society.

Cross-cultural standardisation of behaviour is an unlikely convergence considering your user base.

Changing some of her behaviour may, literally, be almost beyond her control.

Hundreds of reports about the behaviour of animals in modern zoos support the idea of building complex enclosures.

Your pit girls behaviour could come from early life history and treatment.

He disentangled us with his observations about our speech and behaviour.

Unreasonable behaviour breeds unreasonable responses.

End of all foreign-aid programmes that are not plainly and obviously bribes for pro-American behaviour.

She didn't jump up on us or show any other behaviour that indicated she didn't consider us the pack leader.

Humans are primates and it is important to consider our behaviour within the evolutionary context of other primates.

Mike made an excellent point about his behaviour not necessarily being rational, which does rather throw a spanner in the works.

Domscheit-Berg: some folks from the club have asked me about it and i have issued that i think this would be the best behaviour.

Her behaviour is hardly human with odd fits of penitence.

Even if you are concentrating, identifying suspicious behaviour is hard.

The difficulty in interpreting the behaviour of the participants.

But some mental illnesses can lead to violent behaviour in some people.

In practice, human economic behaviour is not quite as rational as the relentless logic of.

And his behaviour betrayed clear signs of immaturity.

Many species, for example, consume dirt-a behaviour known as geophagy.

Right brain intuitive insight leads language and behaviour not vice versa.

The spending behaviour tends to be a reaction to intense emotions.

Economists think they can explain changes in saving behaviour over time and across countries without reference to cultural norms.

Also some lernt behaviour connects us to the not so different animal world, for example mating rituals.

Excellent behaviour on the part of my two brothers and me would signal our family respect and honour for the old ways.

Such behaviour can increase co-operation, which is good from an.

Mankind seems to adopt such a wide range of behaviour that he escapes from natural selection pressures to a large extent.

The problematic behaviour here is the outrage, not the expression of different beliefs.

The number of environmental variables with the potential to influence reproductive behaviour is simply too large.

In return for the privilege of limited liability, society has always demanded vaguely good behaviour from them.

Far from suggesting there is a poor connection between alcohol blood level and behaviour this is a phenomenon in its own.

Starbucks's enlightened behaviour makes good business sense.

Stapel's eye-catching studies on aspects of social behaviour such as power and stereotyping garnered wide press coverage.

I've found the idea of tribalism to be increasingly useful in understanding political behaviour.

It is modeling the behaviour of objects and not necessarily the physical processes that give rise to those behaviours.

It's a spectrum of behaviour which is thought to be produced by a wide variety of genetic mutations.

It is people and their behaviour that are the real problem, not the products they produce and use.

The probabilities of success of a mother's behaviour were worked out by external.

Over time a psychopath s pattern of behaviour becomes visible and they are usually identified as being highly dangerous.

Markets charts are not self-similar, but truly chaotic, because of the irrational nature of human behaviour.

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World English Dictionary

behaviour or behavior (bɪˈheɪvjə)

—n
1.	manner of behaving or conducting oneself
2.	on one's best behaviour behaving with careful good manners
3.	psychol
	a. the aggregate of all the responses made by an organism in any situation
	b. a specific response of a certain organism to a specific stimulus or group of stimuli
4.	the action, reaction, or functioning of a system, under normal or specified circumstances

[C15: from behave; influenced in form by Middle English havior, from Old French havoir, from Latin habēre to have]

behavior or behavior

—n

[C15: from behave; influenced in form by Middle English havior, from Old French havoir, from Latin habēre to have]

be'havioural or behavior

—*adj*

be'havioral or behavior

—*adj*

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behaviour

British spelling of behavior; for suffix, see -or.

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