The researchers' subsequent analysis reported today in PeerJ showed that the elephants' emotional contagion and distinctive, reassuring behaviors happened almost exclusively in response to some stressful trigger.
These are all reassuring behaviors that make others feel comfortable in your presence.
"The fact that we didn't see an increase in negative behaviors is reassuring".
Some of the "moderate, Democratic and independent voters" targeted by this display will not feel reassured by such behavior.
On the other hand, it's reassuring to know that imperfect behavior occurs in everyone's family.
"What transpired since does not prove reassuring to the concept that behavior is easy to modify".
Caregivers used different strategies to cope with their relatives' behavior: avoiding conflict; confronting; reassuring; orienting; responding coercively; distracting; colluding; medicating and restricting the movements.
This evaluation revealed very different behavior, as well as some reassuring commonalities, among the tools on the same dataset.
(On that score, it must be said, his behavior since Election Day has not been reassuring).
