But since nobody really knew how those 3-D shapes dictated behavior, the search was often futile.
When there's precious little time to deeply reflect on decisions, we rely on routines and the surrounding norms to dictate behavior.
To understand the senses of touch and pain, we must unravel peripheral mechanisms that encode tactile stimuli and discover how the brain interprets these signals to dictate behavior.
Addiction is problematic and at least partially based on biology, but we seem all too willing to accept research indicating that biology dictates behavior, thereby exempting all affected persons from taking responsibility for their actions.
I would hesitate to define someone's traits by their profession as I tend to take more of a determinist's view of character; that it dictates behavior or fate.
Another reason is that – unlike race, religion and gender, where social norms dictate behavior – there are few, if any, constraints on the expression of hostility toward people who adhere to opposing political ideologies, the researchers said.
Instead, we found ourselves stuck in a world in which emotions dictate behavior, rationality is frustratingly avoided, and the most revered people are the ones who can throw balls far.
All that said, hormones and engorged erectile tissue don't necessarily dictate behavior.
I was curious to see how social rules play out in a space where everyone is naked and drinking, but, as the organizers dictated, "behavior of a sexual nature is strictly prohibited".
The journey began years ago, when companies tried to dictate behavior through websites and pop-up ads before consumers even had a full understanding of what a website was.
