When animals are thwarted in achieving a goal or simultaneously experience two conflicting motivations, such as fear and aggression, they sometimes perform brief, irrelevant behaviours, such as mock feeding, sleeping, or preening.
That the toilet door might well have more bacteria than the toilet seat is in many ways irrelevant, since this behaviour is motivated not by reality but by the perception of dirt.
For rational choice theorists, history and culture are irrelevant to understanding political behaviour; instead, it is sufficient to know the actors' interests and to assume that they pursue them rationally.
Evidence nothing had happened "yet" suggests participants disregard distal and conditional outcomes and consider these irrelevant to their current behaviour.
Although Case (2002) reported that income exerts very strong effect on health status, however when health care services are provided to the public free of charge or subsidized, the effect of income may be weak or irrelevant to health seeking behaviour.
But, considering most of these myths and impressions are, broadly speaking, unflattering, wouldn't celebrities object to the use of their image for such a project, even while it had a conceptual basis to which their lives and behaviours were irrelevant?
Flart denies nothing, refuses to sign the report detailing his behaviour—"It's irrelevant, at this point"—and walks away.
In Italy, however, the cost shared by the patient is fixed and not proportional as in other countries such as USA or Canada [ 19]; therefore, this measure becomes irrelevant to a price-oriented behaviour by the consumer.
It is almost as if what he practised was not worthy of the title "leadership", an idea that has acquired powerfully positive connotations.But it has traditionally been considered in isolation, as if the behaviour of followers were irrelevant.
There is no way the behaviour can be evolutionarily irrelevant".
