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  • adjective Of or pertaining to behaviour.

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  • adjective of or relating to behavior

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Examples

  • Long before I understood what the term behavioural psychology meant, I was studying people, absorbing and processing information and learning lessons.

    Stepcase Lifehack 2009

  • I may be able to alter certain behavioural patterns, over time, and I can certainly admit that a particular thing I said, or a way in which I reacted was clumsy, aggressive, or just plain wrong.

    fraud 2008

  • April 25 marks the annual Anzac Day event, a largely meaningless piece of slacktivism where people pretend that one hour of pacifist posing by attending dawn service is more important than long-term behavioural change.

    Forget Earth Hour And Do Something Useful Instead | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • I may be able to alter certain behavioural patterns, over time, and I can certainly admit that a particular thing I said, or a way in which I reacted was clumsy, aggressive, or just plain wrong.

    seething 2008

  • The regulator said the proposed undertakings also rely on third parties completing certain actions, and involve complex and long-term behavioural obligations that present risks, creating uncertainty that IOOF could become an effective competitor to the combined NAB-AXA.

    NAB's Bid for AXA Asia Dealt a Blow 2010

  • This Saturday marks the annual Earth Hour event, a largely meaningless piece of slacktivism where people pretend that one hour of environmental posing by switching off lights is more important than long-term behavioural change.

    Forget Earth Hour And Do Something Useful Instead | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • The temptation is to rely on mass promotional activity to stimulate sales and guard market share but this comes with an obvious financial cost, in addition to a longer term behavioural cost.

    Winning the battle for the household budget Thatsnews 2009

  • The temptation is to rely on mass promotional activity to stimulate sales and guard market share but this comes with an obvious financial cost, in addition to a longer term behavioural cost.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Thatsnews 2009

  • No, this "unnatural" nonsense is merely the superstitious hokum of the creationist who believes in behavioural decrees as aspects of a grand and unified design, an absoute truth writ in the spiritual order, manifest in the natural order and to be obeyed in the social order.

    The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom Hal Duncan 2007

  • No, this "unnatural" nonsense is merely the superstitious hokum of the creationist who believes in behavioural decrees as aspects of a grand and unified design, an absoute truth writ in the spiritual order, manifest in the natural order and to be obeyed in the social order.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Hal Duncan 2007

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