The phrase "affect our behavior" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how certain factors or influences can change or modify the way people act or respond.
Example: "The environment we grow up in can significantly affect our behavior as adults."
Alternatives: "influence our actions" or "shape our conduct".
Our own research has shown how quickly positive cues can affect our behavior.
This "biophilia" may reflect evolved adaptive preferences, preferences that may continue to affect our behavior today.
Moreover, even if we correctly predict that we will feel scared, it can still be difficult to know exactly how this fear will affect our behavior.
For instance, two hours of watching Teletubbies is probably going to affect our behavior in a completely different way to playing Halo for a couple of hours (although it's questionable which one will do the more damage).
But Mark is a scientist of "human-computer interactions" who studies how high-tech devices affect our behavior, so she was able to do more than complain: she set out to measure precisely how nuts we've all become.
Nobel Laureate Gary Becker disagrees, and in this lively new collection he confronts the problem of preferences and values: how they are formed and how they affect our behavior.
Abundant research shows that human beings carry unconscious biases that affect our behaviors despite our good intentions and noble values – unless we take concrete actions to counteract them.
On her side, Ludy's work demonstrates an interest in the ever growing digital technology takeover, how this proliferation can affect our behaviors and the way we understand and interact with our surrounding.
We can often answer these questions for ourselves by taking the time to think about our relationship to happiness and how this can affect our behaviors.
Powerful ideas affecting our behavior can be visible only in brief sentences, even a phrase — a catch phrase.
