Societies need to develop highly adaptive behavioural rules for survival.

社会要生存需要建立有高度适应性的行为准则。

What have past behavioural studies found about our brain?

过去的行为研究对我们的大脑有什么发现？

Fortunately for the planet, social science and behavioural economics may be able to do that for us.

对地球来说幸运的是，社会科学和行为经济学或许可以为我们做到这一点。

Such cats displayed more aggressive and anxious behavioural styles as well as more stress-related sickness.

这样的猫表现出更具攻击性、更焦虑的行为方式，并患有更多与压力有关的疾病。

"The dangerous thing about lying is people don't understand how the act changes us," says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University.

杜克大学的行为心理学家丹•艾瑞里表示，撒谎的危险之处在于，人们不知道这种行为会如何改变我们。

Owners defined as individuals with high levels of anxiety, fear, anger, depression and loneliness were more likely to have cats with behavioural issues.

被确定为具有高度焦虑、恐惧、愤怒、抑郁和孤独的主人养的猫更有可能有行为问题。

Half of these are behavioural disorders, while one third are emotional disorders such as stress, anxiety and depression, which often become outwardly apparent through self-harm.

行为障碍占了其中的一半，而精神压力、焦虑和抑郁等情绪障碍占了三分之一，这些情绪障碍往往以自残的形式表现出来。

The reporter suggests that one of the biggest levers for delivering this opportunity is "increased efficiency through management and behavioural change"—in other words, lean and green management.

这位记者指出，提供这一机会的最大杠杆之一是“通过管理和行为上的改变来提高效率”，换句话说，就是精益和绿色管理。

By watching what people search for, click on and say online, companies can aim "behavioural" ads at those most likely to buy.

通过观察人们在网上搜索、点击和发言的内容，公司可以将“行为性”广告瞄准那些最有可能购买的人。

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads?

在过去几周里，一场争论说明了这种精细的信息对于广告商的价值：广告商是否可以认为用户愿意被跟踪并投放行为广告？

Many behavioural addictions are "hidden" addictions.

许多行为上瘾都是“隐性”上瘾。

Fund managers are human too and subject to behavioural biases.

基金经理也是人，也受行为偏差的影响。

The behavioural consequences of stress were no longer present.

压力引起的行为结果不再展示出来了。

The ideological guidance is our behavioural principle as well.

作为我们的思想指引，作为我们的行为准则。

Ringwood said treatment includes cognitive behavioural therapy.

林伍德表示，暴食的治疗方法包括认知行为治疗。

The literature on this hormone's behavioural effects is vast.

有关这一激素的行为结果的文学描述可谓浩如烟海。

This can lead to learning difficulties and behavioural problems.

这可能会导致儿童学习困难和行为上出现问题。

Some policymakers are reaching for a new tool: behavioural economics.

一些政策制定者正在采取新的措施：行为经济学。

How these behavioural changes come about was, until recently, obscure.

这些行为改变是如何产生的至今仍让人费解。

It has already been linked to mental illness and behavioural problems.

目前已与精神疾病及行为问题进行了链接。

She said there were behavioural problems caused by local sleep episodes.

她说：“这里存在局部睡眠产生的行为问题。

The research has been published in the Behavioural Processes journal.

该调查报告被发表在《行为学过程》杂志上。

The way addictions develop - whether chemical or behavioural - is complex.

上瘾的方式，不管是化学的还是行为的，都是非常复杂的。

Behavioural techniques, drugs, or an electronic device could provide a solution.

行为技巧、药物或者某种电动器具有可能成为解决问题的方案。

For many years behavioural economics languished at the fringes of the profession.

行为经济学家们多年来在经济学专业的边缘苦思冥想。

Clearly, their biology was the key factor in creating their behavioural patterns.

很显然，他们的生物学是形成他们行为模式的关键因素。

Direct measurements of the animals' brains supported the behavioural results.

对这些动物大脑的多次直接测量结果支持了行为学方面的效果。

But our new findings highlight the important hippocampal links to behavioural control.

但是，新的研究结果着重强调了海马体与行为控制的链接。

If only we realised that most of our problems are behavioural in origin, not educational.

要是我们能认识到大多数问题，本来就是行为问题，而不是教育问题该多好啊。

They have inferior educational results and more behavioural problems than the average child.

他们和同龄孩子相比，没有接受到良好教育，具有更多的行为方面的问题。