Sentence examples for behaviours spread from inspiring English sources

Ideas, products, messages and behaviours spread just like viruses do.

"Social Contagion" is another aspect – that is, mimicked behaviours spread rapidly across social groups, carried from one person to another, without criticism or, necessarily, intent.

Finally, about 60,000 years ago Homo sapiens began to leave Africa and by 40,000 years ago, with the advantages of more complex tools and behaviours, spread into Asia and Europe, where we replaced the Neanderthals and all the other archaic people outside of Africa.

'Ideas and products and messages and behaviours spread just like viruses,' he wrote, suggesting that we contaminate and infect one another with preferences and recommendations, until we reach a 'tipping point', after which a social epidemic becomes contagious and crosses a threshold to reach saturation point.

Alternatively, a repeated pattern across a number of submissions may indicate an undercurrent of a broader institutional issue of admission standards and/or more sinister cheating behaviours spread by word-of-mouth.

It should be possible to combine these with a more detailed specification of networks, and assumptions about how information and behaviours spread through networks.

The royal court was the natural home of etiquette, because it centred upon a monarch around whom niceties of behaviour spread in expanding circles.

Because this behaviour spread particularly fast within families, social learning seemed to be involved.

As she sat filming and watching the chimps, Dr Hobaiter saw this behaviour spread from individual to individual.

The effect of BFA on the flow behaviour (spread on table and rheology), setting time, temperature of hydration and electrical resistivity was studied in this experimental research.

It is a sad comment on human nature that bad behaviour spreads like wildfire through an organisation and yet good behaviour takes for ever to develop.