If ornithologists told us that starlings were imitating the group behavior endemic to tech-adoption culture, it would be easy to see the similarity.
The Karbala Syndrome prevents Muslims from confronting their unpleasant past, and this, in turn, prevents them from reforming their group behavior so as not to repeat the errors of the past.
Reform hinges on a critical understanding of the past, but the Karbala Syndrome is the group behavior of denying the unpleasantness of the past, of escaping responsibility for history by blaming others.
Any group, any behavior any anything no matter how wicked receives welcome except those esteeming biblical absolutes.
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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.
In their behavior, participants in the flotilla from the Obama-aligned Code Pink group and sister organizations ape the behavior of UN Secretary- General Ban in celebrating Iran's provocative conference on terrorism, and overseeing North Korea's ascension to the head of the UN's Conference on Disarmament' and Qatar's and Iran's leadership of the General Assembly.
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"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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"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.
They reported worrisome and provocative behavior on the part of a group of "Flying Imams" prior to a flight from Minneapolis to Arizona in 2006.
He stocked the bus with a case each of Jagermeister, Jamison Irish Whiskey and Jack Daniels a mistake, he realized, after 18 members of the group were ejected from the game for bad behavior, he says.
"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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There was, for example, the suspicious incident on a Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit to Los Angeles during which a group of 14 Syrian musicians indulged in several hours of bizarre behavior that passengers and members of the flight crew suspected was terrorism-related.
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This is just the latest example of how normal behavior ranting about your estranged wife to a group of friends gets messed up when it is done on Facebook.
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.
This is not unrelated to their approach to other freedoms, starting from fringe opposition group meetings, or press censorship, or most currently to the unpatriotic behavior of an appointed Governor who introduced to the world a worm-intruder in his plate claiming it was served by the Kremlin kitchen.
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.
However, when the very mechanism installed to serve becomes the served, when the scales of fairness and power tilt to a small group of centralized leaders, a divided populous is inevitable as the quest for power dictates behavior.
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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