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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Behavioral consistency"”.
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The Conceptualization of a Crime Event as a Process to Analyze Crime Commission and Behavioral Consistency in Serial Sexual Assaults
… why behaviors change by examining whether the behavioral subtypes of control, sex, and violence could differentiate offenses within the elements of a crime (e.g. the offender, victim, and situation. The second aim addressed when behaviors change by examining whether the behavioral subtypes of …
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Assumptions underlying behavioral linkage revisited: A multidimensional approach to ascertaining individual differentiation and consistency in serial rape
<p>While investigative use of behavioral evidence to help link and solve serial offenses has been in use for centuries, the empirical and theoretical grounds for whether and how to use this evidence effectively has begun to emerge only in recent years. In order for behavioral crime linking to be …
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The Effects of Descriptive Praise on Instructional Control Over Varied and Stereotyped Play of a Five-Year-Old Boy
… These findings suggest stimulus control of behavioral variation and behavioral consistency. The implications for both science and society are discussed.
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An Examination of Behavioral and Temporal Consistency Of Pre-Performance Routines In NCAA Division I Basketball Free Throw Shooting – A Naturalist Observational Investigation
… studies have examined the influence of both behavioral and temporal consistency of pre-performance routines on the success of a skill, yielding inconsistent results (Boutcher & Crews, 1987; Lobmeyer & Wasserman, 1986; Lonsdale & Tam, 2008; Jackson, 2003). However, research examining this …
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Benchmarking models of the ventral stream
… of the ventral stream using crowd-sourced human behavioral measurements. We collected human error patterns on an object recognition task across a variety of images. By comparing the error pattern of these models to the error pattern of humans, we can measure how similar to the human behavior the …
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Personal Strivings: Toward a Theory of Personality and Subjective Well-Being (Motives, Goals, Affect)
… concept, as well as its relevance for the behavioral consistency controversy are discussed. It is concluded that the concept of personal striving is a useful heuristic device for understanding individual differences in subjective well-being, and a useful approach to personality in general …
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Behavioral syndromes and their effect on dispersal in Notonecta irrorata
… that might be affected by an individual's other behavioral tendencies. Correlated behavioral traits, or behavioral syndromes, are evidence for personality in animals and could potentially play a role in dispersal propensity. This research examined whether or not a behavioral syndrome exists in …
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A self-help problem-solving video for parents and teens: social validity and generalization of acquired skills
… and conversation assessments revealed moderate behavioral consistency (r = -.02 to .37). The conversation analysis revealed no significant group differences in the number of families showing increases or decreases in their use of degrading comments after program exposure, but a somewhat …