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Calling it a "sick situation," McMurtry wrote that children imitate behavior, like hockey violence, that is rewarded in adults.
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Anthropologists have hypothesized that people do not imitate behaviors from random people; rather, transmission of some cultural traits (e.g., healing skills) follows biases designed to extract reproductive benefit from the flow of socially transmitted information.
(To get Supplemental Security Income, Samantha and her saner friends coached one another on how to exaggerate their dysfunctions, imitating behavior they had witnessed among the chronically homeless).
The model merely imitates behavior.
However, imitating behavior of the driver is not as easy as drag-and-dropping some unit steps or signal builders since it requires combination of many complex actions.
We argue that control misalignment can be attributed to imitating behavior, by which organizations adopt MCS following the example of other organizations.
At first I thought it was super cliche and it bothered me, but then I wondered if it's intended to show Marnie imitating behavior she's seen.
Kids are especially vulnerable to imitating behavior of highly visible role-models.
Not every Japanese person is well-mannered so be careful when imitating behavior.
Some models posit that people tend to imitate the behavior of others, based either on how popular or how successful that behavior seems.
It is widely agreed that human cultural transmission often involves imitation, but there is also evidence that we do not imitate every behavior we see.
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