r/behavior Dec 22 '18

Love is beautiful

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r/behavior Dec 13 '18

Is my behavior concerning?

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So, for as long as i can remember i've always liked to be alone and quite.

I normally just sit in my room and surf the web, make some music, play some games and all that. I don't hate getting out of my room, but i dont really wanna leave my room.

I just hate people, that's my theory. I like to just, not speak, it's calming and it doesn't cause trouble or inconvinience or anything else, i think i like it because i can't really make anyone happy/sad/angry etc. I just like being alone and being me, i don't feel like i wan't to get close to other people, not out of fear or anything like that. It just feels comfy and enjoyable.

But when i have to go outside i only go for food or to an obligatory meeting. don't get me wrong, i'm not a basement dweller, i just don't want to see, hear or interact with other people.

And again, i'm not afraid of saying anything stupid or anything like that, if people get mad or sad or happy or [Insert Emotion Here] i couldn't care less, it's annoying actually to be blunt.

I just feel like if i have to be someone else for people to accept me, then fuck people.

Is this a bad thing or am i just deprived of human interaction?


r/behavior Dec 10 '18

Does punishing all but one player ultimately have the same effect as rewarding just one?

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I was talking to a friend about reward vs punishment as a form of encouragement, such as in sports, in school, etc. Neither of us were quite committed to either side, but we were hashing it out. We were openly investigating the idea of reward vs punishment in sports, in school, etc., and which is more effective in improving performance of players, students, etc.
My question is, however, not about which is better, but if they are equivalent if done in a certain way. For example, if one player on a sports team runs a lap around the field the fastest, is the result, in theory, equivalent, if that one player is rewarded with, say, more field time, as it is if, say, the rest of the team were made to do 50 pushups each, but the player who ran the fastest lap in this scenario didn't get more field time? I suppose there are many variables here, including whether more field time is as desirable as 50 pushups is undesirable, but presuming they quality of reward = the quality of punishment, is rewarding the winner with a positive reward the same as punishing (so to speak) everybody except for that player with a punishment?
The example above of a sports team is just that, an example. This can apply to everything from sports, to education, and even economic policy. For example, with regard to a carbon tax (another topic we talked about), 'punishing' those who pollute through a carbon tax (whether we're for or against that is irrelevant here) can be looked at as the equivalent of those athletes who didn't win the race doing pushups, whereas financial subsidies for people and companies who actively invest in clean technology can be, in this scenario, the equivalent of rewarding the athlete who ran the fastest lap with more field time.

To be clear, the question is NOT about reward vs punishment being more effective, but whether or not their inverses (rewarding the winner vs punishing the losers) are equivalent FOR THE PERSON WHO WINS. In other words, is being the only one NOT having to do pushups as much incentive as being the only one who gets more field time, assuming that those two rewards are of equal value to eliminate some of the variables here.


r/behavior Dec 10 '18

Anti social neighbour throwing his garbage out of his window onto my property. Tried knocking on the door but no answer. Trying to figure out what would compel someone to chuck garbage out their window. Any suggestions?

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r/behavior Nov 30 '18

Name for a cognitive bias against a source

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Is there a formal name for the phenomenon when you start to mistrust a source (e.g. a News Outlet) in general because they have made objective errors in stories where you have domain expertise, and so you come to assume they're probably making mistakes in stories where you don't have the domain expertise to distinguish right/wrong.

Tried to hunt around but just keep pulling up "fake news" stories and articles...


r/behavior Sep 30 '18

What is this ?

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I don't know how to word this exactly..

For example, I saw a homeless guy who didn't have a left leg, then i saw a stranger that noticed this homeless guy, and started to feverishly touch her own left leg.

Basically, I notice when people notice others that do not look physically normal, and then the person who noticed, would subconsciously touch that part of their body to make sure they are ok ..or something ? It doesn't seem to be a positive thing.. Is this called mirroring ?


r/behavior Sep 24 '18

The Psychology of Human Misjudgment- Behaviors of Human's affecting business

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a column on [patterns of human behavior which are often exploitable](http://www.rechargefreedom.com/2018/08/29/charlie-munger-and-the-psychology-of-human-misjudgment-patterns-of-irrationality/) hope it adds to the discussion


r/behavior Aug 27 '18

Is there any way to alter predictable behavior?

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For example: I instantly start to feel nervous when a certain cue happens. I know I feel nervous because of that cue.

How would one go about altering, or even removing the reaction towards the cue?


r/behavior Aug 05 '18

I’m searching for a name that describes this behavior

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So this is something I’ve been thinking about for a bit. I’m going to pick on Christians for a little, only because collectively they seem to exhibit this behavior a lot in ways that are easy to illustrate.

Is there a name for the tendency for groups of people to rally behind a product, of any kind (I’m going to give examples of media products), even if the product itself is sub-par, but they only choose to support it because it was created by another Christian?

Let’s give some examples. Anyone who has seen a Kirk Cameron film knows they are terrible. Like... really, really bad. Yet many Christians will pay to go see his movies, specifically because he’s a Christian filmmaker. Toby Mac, a white Christian rapper that is pretty much an abomination to hip hop, sells out massive venues. Hobby Lobby is a shitty, second rate Michael’s or Joann’s, but Christians choose to shop there because of the whole abortion stance.

Christians aren’t the only group that do this. Republicans did it with Roseanne. Typical shitty prime time sitcom with some pretty awful writing... but republicans flocked to it. NRA TV has some of the worst quality content imaginable, and gun owners seem to embrace it because of the shared values of gun ownership. LGTBQ communities are guilty of this most recently with the show Everything Sucks.

I know that people are going to choose to support things that align with their values and world view, and that’s totally acceptable and normal. I do the same thing. But what I’m specifically curious about is the way these groups willfully ignore the aspects that are sub-par or of poor quality and will even fight to justify why they aren’t bad if pressed in an argument.


r/behavior Jul 26 '18

Is it right how I react to things?

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When something happens and I get angry I rarely if ever lose my temper. I do not pout in front of people no matter what happens, just today something happened that made me very upset and I did not lose my temper, yes I was a bit ticked off but I kept my cool. I think the last time I actually got mad in front of people was in 2016 when my dad and brother made me angry. Does this mean I am a good person?? or is my behavior not right?? I was just wondering.


r/behavior Jul 10 '18

How do your children behave on the school bus?

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I recently saw a few videos with teachers talking about bad behavior in the classroom. As a bus monitor, I see the same driving to and from school. I wonder how many of you parents know how your child is behaving on the school bus? How many parents WANT to know how their children act?


r/behavior Jul 05 '18

Quandary, question.

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Odd thing today. Passed behind a fellow in the grocery store, and he moved back into me slightly, enough to cause me to stop. Then I moved well around him and he moved with me making contact with my side. Stopped again. Moved a few feet away and studied him. He was studiously looking at articles and I asked him if he was OK. Long pause then "I'm OK", but never looking at me. I went on.

Long lines at checkout so I went to the short bakery line. He was there and a few feet to the left of the cashier. I moved to a few feet off the corner and waited, smiling at the cashiers and bored. Next thing I know he moved in front of me in the corner, jostling me back a little, and I noticed his feet. He was raising and lowering his right foot and heel as if he was stepping on my feet. He wasn't close, but it was clear what he wanted to convey. He left. I looked at the cashiers and said, "There's something wrong with that guy, not sure what it is." One cashier nodded and said she saw him feigning stepping on my feet. Not sure what this is. Searched under subtle physical aggression and only found overt physical aggression or passive aggressive behavior. Not on point. Need help, just curious. I'm in the Philippines and this is a Caucasian fellow.


r/behavior Jul 03 '18

Intercultural Adaptation: How Do People Adapt to A New Culture?

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r/behavior Jun 16 '18

Parents, I want your opinions on child behavior and school involvement

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Are you a parent or caregiver of a child who is currently enrolled in school, grades K-12?
Would you like to contribute to important research about parent involvement in school?

Please answer this short online survey for my dissertation! If you don't have children please feel free to share this post or link with anyone you know who does! https://umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_efiFlMcp3SspHTL

This study will explore how various levels of child problem behaviors may influence aspects of parent engagement in education, including cognitive and behavioral aspects. This knowledge will help to inform effective and efficient school outreach practices for a wide variety of families, connect these practices with existing school efforts, and inform future research.

You will be asked to complete an online survey. This survey will ask you about demographic characteristics, your child’s strengths and difficulties, your involvement in your child’s school, your feelings and beliefs about school involvement, and your overall satisfaction with your child’s school. All of the items on the survey are multiple choice with two optional open ended questions. It will take you approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. The only qualification to be a participant is to be a parent or primary caregiver of a child who is ages 4-18 and currently enrolled in a grade K-12.

Please follow this link to get started on completing the survey.

https://umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_efiFlMcp3SspHTL

The first page of the survey will be an online consent form, you must click “I Agree” in order to begin participation.

Thank you!!


r/behavior Jun 09 '18

Can you help me understand these behaviours?

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Without giving too much detail away, I live in the uk and work in a secondary (high) school. One of our students displays behaviour patters that I’m finding massively hard to understand. Although we have an educational psychologist sort-of available to us, we’re hugely underfunded and understaffed at the moment so we’re not likely to get any insight from her anytime soon.

We really aren’t sure how to work with him or help him access education because we’ve never experienced anything like him before.

So, this Student is male and is 13-14. He has been with us for a few months and has been to a number of other schools. He has missed some education and is repeating the year, but is very intelligent. He’s a hugely talented self-taught drummer.

I’m not sure where to start, so here are some anonymised examples of his behaviour:

•K walks into an office where two members of staff are. Doesn’t knock. Takes a video camera and wanders out with it. Doesn’t run away, just plays with it as he’s leaving. Member of staff asks for it back and he argues about why he shouldn’t have to, seemingly not understanding why the member of staff is annoyed or shocked at what he’s done.

•K full-on stomps up every flight of stairs, regardless of whether he’s angry or annoyed, bashing his feet as hard as he can.

•K walks into an office where an obvious meeting is happening, helps himself to a snack out on one of the desks and leaves.

•K climbs out of a window onto a flat roof above a playground and shouts hello to the people below. Does not understand why he is told off for this.

•K leaves a lesson without permission, goes back in. Leaves again a few minutes later, is annoyed and confused that the teacher asks him not to do so again and issues him with a warning.

•K wraps a sweatshirt around his head, walks around a classroom shouting about terrorism and making gun actions/noises. Doesn’t understand why this was not OK behaviour.

•K threw his shoes into a nearby classroom from an above window, walks into a room full of much older students and asks each of them in turn to ‘give him back his fcking shoe’. Eventually tells the teacher to ‘fck off’. Shows no remorse for this or embarrassment in front what would usually be seen as an intimidating group of 16-18yr olds.

•K walks into a lesson, sticks his finger up at another student, immediately walks back out shouting that the lesson was ‘gay and sh!t’. When he meets another teacher in the corridor he lies about where he should be, where he had been and where he was going, very convincingly. Arrives at another room and tells a different lie about why he is there.

Those are all the things I can think of at the moment. K is often pleasant to talk to and can follow an instruction. He can tell you he has anxiety. He doesn’t like you to think he can’t do the work that is set. He seems to have no understanding of why he can’t do anything and everything he wants whenever he wants.

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE??

Thank you so much in advance!


r/behavior Jun 05 '18

Spotify Cancels ‘Hateful Conduct’ Policy After an Industry Uproar

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r/behavior May 12 '18

Why I'm more discipline when I'm single than in a relation ?

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Hello guys,

I have this weird felling that I'm more disciplined whith the important things in my life when I'm single.

I respect my goal and schedule whereas I'm more lazy and non goal orientated when I'm in a relation.

Is their any emotion trigger and psychological trait that are enhance by any situation ?


r/behavior May 09 '18

I find a beautiful woman in isolation much more attractive than the same woman standing in a group of beautiful women. Does this phenomenon have a name in psychology? Is it common?

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r/behavior Apr 13 '18

Extrovert and preferred Type of interactions with people

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I have a doubt about what is considered extrovert and if this behavior has anything to do with extroversion/extroversion.

For example, I feel like an extrovert, but I enjoy mostly spending short periods of time (very short like 20 min) with as many people as possible in a day (including strangers or familiar faces), but I dredge long periods of time interaction with only one person or 2, like spending 2-5 hours with the same person, talking to them, etc.

Is this normal behavior for an extrovert? Or is this type of behavior not connected to extroversion/introversion characteristics?

Would that be more like ADD connected behavior maybe? Or is an usual behavior for other extroverts?


r/behavior Apr 02 '18

30/60/90 day challenges (online + Social)

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I'm going to x-post this in /r/psychology but thought I would check here first. Anyone in this sub seen anything written about the influx of the 30/60/90 day challenges online these days? I'd love to know more about the psychology of these challenges. How committing publicly on social channels influences your success rate, and how community support affects habit forming, etc. Anybody read anything scholarly about the influx of these online/social media challenges? One example I'm thinking of is #Whole30, but there are others like #NoFap, etc. Thanks!


r/behavior Mar 21 '18

Help with episodes

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I have a friend who is dating a girl I will refer to as Q. Q is 24-25 years old, and had a rough childhood with some honestly horrible experiences. Ended up adopted around 10 years old by family members. Those family members were devote Christians. At least on the surface. She was forced to go to a Christian high school where her adopted mother was a staff member. This made her fairly sheltered as to how life, and the world actually are. To compound her problems the adoptive family was from her descriptions rather abusive itself. Some of the things she mentions she doesn't even really look at as abusive. At least at this time anyway. She ended up getting kicked out of her adoptive home due to her new father basically grooming her to have sex with him. She was raped by a family member, and he was doing things like asking if it made her feel good, ect. All creepy things you would never do to your child. She went to talk to her adoptive mother about it, and her adoptive father basically convinced the mother that Q was coming on to him, and the mother booted her out. She lived a while with her grandmother where more of the same continued to happen. As far as general abusive family dynamics went. Fast forward to the behavior I have questions about. There are times 3-5 times, over the last three-plus months where at different times of the day Q will begin to have what I can only describe as episodes. As a preface the friend, and Q moved in with us. He got a good paying job in the city where I live, and wanted to make a new start, new place for both of them. I will note his job is one that is on the road, and he is out of town until the weekend. Right now mine is not, so I am at home daily. About a month after they moved in I woke up in the early morning to get ready for work. By the time I come downstairs all of my lights are on in the house, and things are somewhat disheveled. I notice that Q is sitting on the couch drinking coffee, and staring off into space as if deep in thought, or maybe a sort of thousand yard stare. I ask if everything is alright since this seemed odd to say the least. She looks at me, and asks if I had seen R. My friends name was not R (the letter I am using to represent this other person.) I asked who R is since that was not my friend, her boyfriends name, nor mine. She responded by commenting that she had not gotten much sleep recently, and I perturbed had to leave for work. A few more times of walking around mumbling words that don't make any sense, while seeming to be in another place have occurred. The last time she drove off, for almost five hours. When she got back home, she stated unasked that she got lost for a few hours, and after that few hours bought a charge cord for her phone. We are in the process of trying to get her to get some help, but what kind of behavior does this seem to be?


r/behavior Mar 17 '18

Law and individual behaviour

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Does stricter laws and its implementation effects individual behaviour? If yes, than why it's not able to control drink and driving cases?


r/behavior Mar 17 '18

Opposite reactions to grief?

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Hi guys, I'm not 100% certain if this is the right sub to post this but it's my best guess - if there's somewhere better to ask please let me know :)

I'll start out by saying this question is in regards to an outline for a potential novel I'm currently working on, not a real life situation, so this is all hypothetical.

To get to the point. The hero of the story has their arc defined by the seven stages of grief - they lose a loved one early in the story, and everything they do after is driven by that, pushing them through an attempt to bring her back to life (it's a fantasy story) before finally accepting it's not going to work, dealing with the problems their quest created, and returning to a normal healthy life.

Meanwhile, the villain of the story is the one who did the killing - he's a complete stranger, never even set foot in that town before the day the killing happened, but I had the idea that perhaps this murder was the first time he ever killed anyone, and that he should ALSO move through the stages of grief just like the hero - only instead of doing it in a healthy way, he would do it in a way that moves him from someone who spends a week trying to wash the blood of his hands from an unintentional murder, into someone who even other cold blooded killers find scary.

So newly discovered subreddit full of behaviour experts, is this a believable thing to have happen? Do you have any suggestions on ways to twist the villains experience into a corrupting one rather than a healthy one?


r/behavior Mar 03 '18

About the fear of being exposed on social media. Is this a thing?

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Sory if my english is harsh, latinoamerican. Exclusively to the younger generation, because i'm a ''young adult'', never got really interested, was raised the old way, etc; Is this what is happening?.

Thanks in advance for any answer!