If ornithologists told us that starlings were imitating the group behavior endemic to tech-adoption culture, it would be easy to see the similarity.
But if you, if a group recognizes an ugly behavior or ugly deed as legitimate, you must not expect other countries or other groups to give it the same recognition.
"The growth in electronic purchases is a bonus for Wal-Mart as they generate high-average tickets, " says Britt Beemer, president of America's Research Group, which tracks consumer behavior.
All this may seem obvious, but it is clearly worth me prattling on about it, because the recently released 14th Annual Mystery Shopping Study by the etailing group found some appallingly bad behavior among merchants on this topic.
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"From Neural Responses to Population Behavior: Neural Focus Group Predicts Population-Level Media Effects, " Emily B.
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"IKEA would hereby like to inform this group and its organizers: Your behavior is affecting the normal operations of the IKEA cafeteria, " the notice said.
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Some hope for Merck and Schering's sales may come from Impact Rx, a prescription data service that bases its predictions on the behavior of a select group of doctors who prescribe high volumes of drugs.
They are also working with medical epidemiologists, using focus-group data among teens to analyze dating behavior and father-daughter relationships to see who is most vulnerable to sexually transmitted disease.
"What has mobilized so many people, within our group and beyond, are the comments and behavior of some FDA officials and what we believe to be incorrect scientific conclusions, " said Douglas Park, an Arena shareholder in San Diego who used to work for the company.
Those who manage or have any responsibility for the conduct of a group or work unit already know to squash bullying behavior.
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The case has attracted the attention of bloggers and even the loosely organized hacking group Anonymous, which have questioned everything from the behavior of the football team to the integrity of the investigation.
"UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against S.S. Lazio for the improper conduct of the club's supporters (racist behavior) during the UEFA Europa League group stage match on Thursday 20 September between Tottenham Hotspur FC and the Italian side, " read a UEFA statement.
He stated he noticed a change in her behavior and said that she had changed her group of friends to a much older group.
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In a recent Kelton Group study my firm commissioned, titled Social Commerce: Buying Behavior and Influence Online, consumers were asked who they were likely to trust the most and least for product recommendations.
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Those who witnessed rudeness also were less willing to invest extra effort to help others in their group, according to the study, published in 2009 in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
The rationale for pursuing stem cell therapy in autism is based on encouraging results of unpublished data examining stem cell therapy in children with cerebral palsy, a group of disorders that affect not only movement, but learning, behavior and cognition.
But the behavior of rats in the odorized box wasn't significantly different in either group, suggesting the familiar scents left by the odorizing rat suppressed conditioned fear responses, researchers said.
In another experiment, a group of college students were asked to rate how willing they were to engage in unethical behavior in various everyday scenarios -- such as taking a ream of printer paper from the office where they work, failing to correct a cashier's error in their favor, or accepting ill-gotten tips about an upcoming exam.
While the behavior might be limited to one or two people, the effect reverberates throughout the group.
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The headlines in this our 30th year of The Forbes 400 belong not to the old stalwarts but to a younger group of entrepreneurs marching their way up the ranks, particularly those who are profoundly impacting social behavior online.
But the group's policy director, John Wonderlich, maintained there were plenty of other abuses involving improper behavior by officeholders that had yet to be exposed.
The findings are "pretty good evidence" that violent video games do indeed cause aggressive behavior, says Dr. L. Rowell Huesmann, director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor.
Doubling its staff of scientists and technicians to more than 350 people, the Seattle-based nonprofit group plans to build over the coming decade a series of "brain observatories, " computational tools to map neural behavior.
The second issue with having just baseline measurements for this group is whether, as diet drink consumers, they are more likely to make significant changes to their diet and behavior over the course of a decade.
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