Sentence examples for to a behavior from inspiring English sources

As a noun, "custom" refers to a behavior that is common to many people.

Julie Marcuse, 57, a psychoanalyst in Manhattan, has the advantage of knowing how to apply cogent psychological analysis to a behavior pattern she knows all too well.

So instead of student government, Antioch has had a community government, with students, faculty and administrators participating equally in nearly every decision, from tenure to a behavior code.

Generalizations involve matching a category of people to a behavior or trait — overweight middle-aged men to heart-attack risk, young men to bad driving.

WHEN we say that someone is "addicted" to a behavior like gambling or eating or playing video games, what does that mean?

Heike Schweitzer, professor of competition law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, said the high penalty "can only be understood as a reaction to a behavior by Microsoft".

But from that dataset, we were unable to tie a behavior to expression in any particular FruM cluster.

In psychology, the most powerful way to induce a behavior is to reward it only sporadically and unpredictably.

If you lighten your touch, the speed returns to normal, a behavior similar to that of old cassette players.

A leader may deliver harsh feedback, in a spirit of honesty, to get an employee to change a behavior.

Humans are distressingly prone to conflicts, a behavior we seem to share with our primate cousins.