She tells Patrick Strudwick the battle is far from over Patrick Strudwick, himself a victim of such behaviour, argues that far too many people accept it as a fact of gay life Even gay rights campaigners have defended him.
On July 27th even the Global Times, a usually reliable critic of American behaviour, argued that China should avoid "arbitrarily expanding" the definition of its core interests.
That went down badly with the commissioners, who were unimpressed with the newspaper's behaviour, arguing that it should be a "relatively simple matter" for newspapers to communicate internally about such requests.
Moreover, in keeping with the temper of the times, The Selfish Gene announced itself, from the first, as "a book about animal behaviour", arguing that "we, like all other animals, are (survival) machines created by our genes".
Early theories of crowd behaviour argued that people become more primitive when they are in a crowd, an idea that gained support in the 1970s following work on deindividuation in groups by American psychologist Edward Diener.
Take the opening chapter ("Stand up straight with your shoulders back"), in which he draws on the neurochemistry of lobsters and social behaviour of chimpanzees to make inferences about our human socio-cultural behaviour, arguing that we are inveterately wired to monitor our status in the "dominance hierarchy" (a term he adapts to "competence hierarchy" for creatures more complex than crustaceans).
In their critique of international health services research, Lee and Owens [ 16] identify a general tendency to neglect the socio-cultural and geo-political influences on men's health-related behaviours, arguing that such a neglect often implies that men's poor health-service uptake is down to individual choice.
As code increasingly penetrates daily life, it becomes de facto law that regulates behaviour, argues Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor, in his book "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" (Basic Books, 1999).
Arguing that 'X' behaviour will help a company hit its environmental targets answers the question from a sustainability director's perspective but does nothing to persuade most finance directors.
Using a conceptual framework for pro-environmental behaviour, titled AMPR, this study argues that transitioning to more sustainable production in an agricultural context is constructed upon an in-depth understanding of the value system that underpins the motivational structure of the participant.
