In five experiments, we manipulated whether behaviors are presented concretely (i.e. with reference to a specific person, instantiated in the particular context of that person's life) or abstractly (i.e. with reference to a category of people or behaviors across generalized contexts).
Generalizations involve matching a category of people to a behavior or trait — overweight middle-aged men to heart-attack risk, young men to bad driving.
Taken together, the number of intervals that were censored due to maternal deaths was 8. Dominance ranks were assessed on a monthly basis using daily ad libitum observations of avoidance and aggression between females scored on a one/zero basis per day per category of behavior.
It was the general category of behavior that I was defending, and I neither approved nor condemned any particular instance of it.
But one category of behavior can really spike my blood pressure: rudeness.
Habits the category of behavior into which Brown says most phone use likely fits are unfortunately and by definition some of the most challenging behaviors to change as they're practiced behaviors a person has done thousands and thousands of times.
Even within one category of behavior, the definitions between studies vary.
These behaviors were quantified by using Macintosh IMovie 11 to divide videotape sequences into 10-second clips and scoring the predominant category of behavior for each tadpole in each clip.
Dietary changes, such as reducing the child's sugar or carbohydrate intake, were the most common category of behavior reported by caregivers, with 20.9 and 29.2% of those engaging in any preventive behavior reporting this type at 6 and 15 months, respectively.
Although much of the research on stereotype threat has examined the effects of coping with negative stereotype on academic performance, recently there has been an emphasis on how coping with stereotype threat could "spillover" to dampen self-control and thereby affect a much broader category of behaviors, even in non-stereotyped domains.
