Top 187 Behavioral Quotes & Sayings

Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

Underlings look up to the boss for behavioral cues, subtle signs, hints and gestures.

The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic.

Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.

The sad truth is that many behavioral economists know very little about psychology.

I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology.

Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.

Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.

Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.

The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed in standard economic theory.

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

My mother's father was the behavioral psychologist, John B. Watson.

'Criminal Minds' consists of stories told within the framework of the FBI behavioral science unit. It's about serial profiling.

We know that all too often, homelessness and behavioral health challenges go hand in hand.

Originally in the United States, there were no laws regulating behavioral advertising. As a result, like in the Philippines, government has relied on industry self-regulation.

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

Behavioral economics offers a plausible explanation for overreactions by the market. For example, a long period of bad performance can lead to stereotyping.

Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery.

Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?

On the issue of behavioral health and the like, the program we have in place has always been available to former players as well.

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

I practice what has come to be called behavioral economics.

There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary individual psychology, there's evolutionary social psychology. In Darwin's terms, evolution couldn't exist without variation, and variation is important in behavioral genetics. And so on, and so on. There are so many instances in which evolution actually sharpens the precision, I think, with which one can find out the importance of differences. We're interested in differences as well as commonalities.

The changes that we can make in the culture can be there for people that we will never meet, that will never know us, and that's what keeps me up at night. It's what excites me about science, that we can learn ways of being with each other. And the behavioral sciences have not been enough of a part of cultural development. The physical sciences have; the behavioral sciences have not. And I would like to see if we can bring some things into human culture that would humanize and soften and empower people.

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?

I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else.

Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

The moment you've convinced someone that you truly understand her dreams and feelings, mental and behavioral change becomes possible, and the foundation for a breakthrough has been laid.

A small behavioral change can also lead to embracing a wider checklist of healthier choices.

[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

We are a system where I can tell you that nobody is doing more for behavioral health care in this country than the VA.

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself.

These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.

The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

The most recent studies both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic — something determined at conception.

Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable.

I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning.

Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control.

Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.

The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral patterns and so on. If you don't accept them, you are called maybe a behavioral problem, or something, and you're weeded out. Something like that goes on all the way through universities and graduate schools. There is an implicit system of filtering, which has the, it creates a strong tendency to impose conformism. Now, it's a tendency, so you do have exceptions, and sometimes the exceptions are quite striking.

Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

I believe that over 90 percent of LU students try hard to comply with the behavioral code and are supportive of the school's mission.

The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.

It makes sense for social scientists to become more involved in policy because many of society's most challenging problems are, in essence, behavioral.

It is true that I am one of the co-authors of 'Nudge,' and I am a behavioral economist, but it does not mean that everything we write about in that book is behavioral economics, nor does it mean that my co-author, the distinguished legal scholar Cass Sunstein, is a behavioral economist.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.

Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.