Individuals take less responsibility, he said, and are more likely to copy the behavior of those around them.
He seemed to have forgotten, in his office, that I was a person who needed straightening out on many matters, or who had to be urged, especially at the dinner table, to copy the behavior of my aunt Dawn.
Our closest furry relatives also prefer to copy the behavior of prestigious individuals.
Social psychologists have known for decades that people often copy the behavior of the majority in a social group (e.g., Asch 1956).
Cultural evolution People copy the behavior of high-prestige models 1. Psychological studies 2. Neuroscience 3. Organizational surveys Are there more sexual relationships and sexual conflicts and harassment in gender-diverse work places, based on particular sex ratios?
Still others may select response patterns by copying the behavior of other agents, or by following rules of thumb that are embedded in cultural and institutional structures and represent historical collective learning.
For instance, we may have evolved to copy the behavior of others in a group and to adopt the group's majority viewpoint even if it runs counter to our own because of a risk that asserting independent judgment could result in loss of status or, worse, complete exclusion from the group.
She wants to awaken people from their smartphone-induced social media stupor, saying, "Pop culture is not trying to copy the behavior of geniuses, they are promoting a behavior of idiocy.
Humans follow the example of prestigious, high-status individuals much more readily than that of others, such as when we copy the behavior of village elders, community leaders, or celebrities.
Expect competitors to scream next, and of course to copy the behavior.
