In the last decade, work in economics and finance (e.g., Delong et al. (1991), Daniel et al. (1998), Odean (1998)) area suggested that overconfidence triggers a behavior that theoretically is irrational but practically is highly applicable.
In this study, we investigated students' motivation and ability to play the GIL, with the aim of evaluating whether the game is capable of triggering a behavior change in the students.
Context-Aware Business Process Modelling extends traditional business process models with contextual variables that trigger a dynamic behavior under continuous change.
"It's an elegantly done study that's trying to answer a basic question: whether one single molecule can trigger a complex behavior as well as a complex odor does, and it answers that question beautifully," says Johan Lundström, an experimental neuropsychologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
Think of each of these as a trigger: an event, a behavior, or a circumstance that prompts negative emotions -- and more specifically, the experience of fight or flight.
Our lives often contain too much information to figure out what is triggering a particular behavior.
The allegations have their source in a report by Stanford grad student Jonathan Mayer, who showed that using Safari triggered a special behavior in the normal cookie-creation process; his report was later played up by the Wall Street Journal.
He worked closely with Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz; together they theorized that instinct arises from an animal's impulses, after the environment triggers a repetitive behavior they called a fixed-action pattern.
We have demonstrated that the discovery of a new territory, a sugary food source, a prey or an alien ant triggers a peculiar behavior in Oecophylla workers that first rub the underside of their mandibles onto the substrate, and then tilt their head to rub the upper side as well.
