Sentence examples for behavior did not seem from inspiring English sources
But when Professor Mayer and his co-author, David Genesove, a professor of economics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, studied the Boston condominium market in the 1990s — scene of one of the biggest real estate busts in recent American memory — the actual patterns of human behavior did not seem to follow the standard rules at all.
Compared to health-care workers who entered a room alone, group behavior did not seem to improve if the higher ranking person or peer did wash their hands.
The Armed Services Committee will probably not hold hearings into Mr. White's conduct, one Congressional staff member said, who added that Mr. White's behavior does not seem to have generated a "critical mass" of opposition.
Citing, among many other studies the work of Judith Rich Harris, Pinker concludes that whatever experiences siblings share by growing up in the same home makes little or no difference in the kind of people they turn out to be, and that parents' behavior does not seem to shape their children's intelligence or personality over the long term... Pinker's conclusions are profoundly counter-intuitive.
Estrous behavior does not seem to be suppressed by contact with a teaser boar, compared to sows without boar contact.
A bigger problem for psychological egoism is that some behavior does not seem to be explained by self-regarding desires.
The study reveals Itza' protective attitudes that appear to contradict the "tragedy of the commons" model: "given that other people (Ladinos, Q'eqchi') do not protect the trees that Itza' do, Itza' conservation behavior does not seem to make sense from the individual's standpoint" (ibid).
