Human Behavior

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Human Behavior

• By Jeff Mahoney
• Nick Nolan

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Major Observation Topics

• Reactions to strangers
• Reactions to friends and family
• Differences in behavior
• Affects of alcohol on public behavior

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Reactions to strangers

• Avoiding eye contact
• No eye brow flashes
• No acknowledgment of presence
• Make false judgments on appearance

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• For example
• The guy is walking by a group without any
  acknowledgment
• No eye contact was made
• No one in group acknowledges the guys presence

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Reactions to family and friends

• Touching or hugging
• making eye contact
• Eye brow flashes and smiling
• Joining group conversations
• Acknowledgment of presence

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• Direct eye contact
• Face gestures
• Communicating with each other
• acknowledgment of each other

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Differences in behavior

• Makes direct eye contact
• Welcomes with physical contact
• General acknowledgment in brief encounters
• Friendly facial gestures

• No eye contact
• No physical greetings
• If acknowledged, the person is quickly judged
• No or unfriendly facial gestures

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Behavior in neutral settings

• Even though people arent acquainted friendly
  interaction can occur
• Both parties must be kind to make a deal, even
  though their only business partners

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Affects alcohol has on public behavior

• Makes a person feel more confident
• Makes someone who is normally shy act in an
  outgoing manner
• Sometimes causes aggression

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Final Thoughts

• People act differently in a public place than
  they do when only around friends and family
• If in a large group people tend to focus in on
  only people they know and avoid the others
• Alcohol can have a very large affect on the way a
  person behaves