To assess behavioral implications, participants were asked if they had changed their behavior as a result of the EVD outbreak, how they would change behavior if an EVD patient were flown from Africa to Germany for treatment in a nearby hospital, and whether they would cancel an already booked flight to Africa.
It is the ethically calculating car, the military drone: robots that do precisely what we want, and mechanize our moral behavior as a result.
Analysts said consumers had yet to change their online behavior as a result of the attacks, but they might have to soon.
In captivity, many birds develop Feather Destructive Behavior as a result of conditions including lack of psychological and emotional stimulation, stress, lack of companionship, and limited freedom.
Put another way, one cannot imagine atomic particles and lab mice changing their behavior as a result of a ceremony in Stockholm.
But readers of the article may well conclude from the headline and references to Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant churches that there has been a broad, nationwide shift in churchgoing behavior as a result of the economic downturn.
What is more, random interviews yesterday with shoppers in Seattle and Boston turned up little evidence that people were altering their behavior as a result of pessimistic news media reports.
Carney says the administration has already changed surveillance behavior as a result of the ongoing review of intelligence activities: Upon conclusion of the review we will endeavor to make public as much information as possible...
I had participated in a few research studies before, but I had never felt the observer effect — in which a subject changes her behavior as a result of feeling watched — so strongly.
If you had told people 10 years ago that companies would be observing everything you do online and they would make assumptions about your behavior as a result, they would freak out.
Excusing abominable behavior as a result of that frustration, be it using racial and ethnic slurs, throwing puppies off cliffs, shooting animals, urinating on the dead, randomly killing Afghans or executing the innocent as substitutes for the enemy is even more callous and inhuman.
