Social scientists have discovered that we think about a decision quite differently when we are predicting how we will behave than when we have to act, a difference that is driven both by different motivations at these two points in time and by the process of ethical fading.
And some people tell me that I now look and behave better than I did three years ago.
Many behave better than most Christians, but faith is more than mere morals.
But if the game has a plot line and gives the player-character a personality, motives and desires, should a female soldier behave differently than a man?
Burger ("The Illusionist") and co-writer Dick Wittenborn playfully undercut the melodrama, and these gentle curveballs invariably enhance our appreciation of the characters, who generally behave better than we might suppose.
Except for the brief period of mutual antagonism after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, auditors behave more than ever as if their client is management, and now the Audit Committee, rather than investors.
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But Kennedy stops short of saying the study implies that women behave more ethically than men.
DoJ to get the software company to behave than Mr Gates emerged to brag about how little it would affect the way he did business.
Rowe Price, or a BlackRock, which will have a transparent cash flow and sell at some price-earnings multiple higher than a bank today and behave according to the way the stock market behaves.
The solution is, finally, to fix the game, rather than waiting for the players to behave differently.
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This makes managers behave like owners rather than hired hands: they can lose money as well as making it and they have years to turn their companies around rather than answering to the stockmarket every quarter.
According to psychologists, most children behave much better for teachers than they do for their parents.
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Infinitely more powerful than firms and far less accountable for its actions, the modern state has the capacity to behave even in evolved western democracies as a more dangerous psychopath than any corporation can ever hope to become: witness the environmental destruction wreaked by Japan's construction ministry.
Because of the nature of the OS, these apps behave far more like Android apps than BlackBerry apps.
The reason is simple: stocks in the same sector tend to behave more similarly to each other than to stocks in other sectors.
Other parts of it, such as local government and many of the ministries, still behave in a far more Soviet than Nordic way.
Tenure creates moral hazard: Moral hazard is the well-established phenomenon that people behave differently when they have insurance than when they do not.
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If anything, they behave as if they were drunk rather than diligently affirming the sober truth.
Bin Laden was a greater threat to Pakistan than to America in recent years, yet Pakistanis behave as if they regret his death.
In financial regulation, for instance, this might mean making sure bankers have incentives to act prudently rather than smothering them with examiners to make sure they behave.
It seemed odd, though, that sterling should behave more like those racy high-yielders than a stable reserve currency.
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Rather than fearing the US, Iran, Syria and North Korea behave as though the US is a paper tiger.
This is not cheap, but it is okay if ten-year Treasurys behave themselves and don't yield much more than 4.5%.
The Department is apparently way behind in getting its computer hardware and software fortified against the so-called Millennium Bug: Unless replaced or adjusted, computers at the turn of the century will behave as if the numerals 00 are 1900 rather than 2000 and may possibly crash.
Increasingly, ministers behave as if the Lords were a nuisance to be trampled on rather than a check to be respected.
Too many and not only Britain's former Tory government talk and behave as though events in Brussels were quite separate from them, rather than being their own creation.
So even though it looks as though Mr Akaev's successor will almost inevitably be an insider (rather than, say, a dissident absurdist playwright), there is some hope that he will feel constrained to behave better.
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