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Behavioral macroeconomics
Behavioral macroeconomics is the branch of macroeconomics that incorporates psychologically realistic expectations and preferences into aggregate models of output, inflation, and policy, relaxing rational expectations in favor of bounded rationality.
Behavioral medicine
Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field, defined at Yale in 1977, that integrates behavioral and biomedical science for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of illness.
Behavioral modernity
Behavioral modernity, or modern human behavior, is an archaeological concept for the trait suite (symbolic culture, ornaments, art, complex tools) once thought to appear suddenly ~40 kya in Europe but now seen as gradual, partly Neanderthal-shared, and increasingly argued obsolete.
Behavioral neuroscience
Behavioral neuroscience, also known as biological psychology or biopsychology, is the branch of neuroscience studying how the nervous system produces behavior, emotions, and mental processes, largely through experiments with laboratory animals.
Behavioral Science Unit
The FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, founded in 1972 at Quantico, pioneered offender profiling and serial-killer interviews; it later became the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU).
Behavioral sink
Behavioral sink: term coined by John B. Calhoun in his 1962 Scientific American article for the social behavior collapse seen in crowded rat and mouse 'utopia' experiments, including Universe 25, and its contested legacy.
Behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia
Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), a frontotemporal dementia subtype with disinhibition, apathy, and executive decline, onset around age 58, often misdiagnosed as psychiatric illness, linked to MAPT, GRN, and C9orf72 genes.
Behavioralism
Behavioralism is a movement in political science, originating at the University of Chicago in the 1920s-1930s and peaking in the 1950s behavioral revolution led by David Easton, Robert Dahl, and Heinz Eulau, which treats observable political behavior, quantification, and value-free science as the basis of the discipline.
Behaviorism
Behaviorism: school of psychology founded by John B. Watson in 1913, studying observable behavior via classical (Pavlov) and operant (Skinner) conditioning; includes radical vs methodological variants, Chomsky's 1959 critique, and applied behavior analysis.
BehaviorTree.CPP
BehaviorTree.CPP is a C++17 library for building behavior trees, the switching logic that coordinates tasks of robots and game characters, best known for powering ROS 2's Nav2 navigation stack.
Behaviour (Pet Shop Boys album)
Behaviour (US: Behavior) is the fourth Pet Shop Boys studio album, released 22 October 1990 on Parlophone; recorded in Munich with co-producer Harold Faltermeyer, peaked at UK No. 2, includes Being Boring and Jealousy.
Behaviour change technique
A behavior change technique is an observable, replicable active ingredient of an intervention designed to change behavior, classified by the 2013 BCTTv1 taxonomy of 93 techniques in 16 clusters.
Behaviour Interactive
Behaviour Interactive, formerly Artificial Mind & Movement (A2M), is a Canadian video game studio founded in Montreal in 1992, best known as the creator of Dead by Daylight.
Behaviour therapy
Behaviour therapy, also called behavioral psychotherapy, is a family of psychological treatments that applies classical and operant conditioning to reduce maladaptive behavior, emerging in the 1950s.
Behavioural change theories
Behavioural change theories, also called behavior change theories or models, are formal frameworks explaining how people change actions, spanning continuum models like the theory of planned behavior, stage models like the transtheoretical model, and integrated systems like COM-B and the Behavior Change Wheel used in health interventions.
Behavioural finance
Behavioural finance is the study of how psychological factors such as loss aversion, overconfidence, and framing affect financial decision-making and market prices, challenging standard finance theory since the 1980s.
Behavioural pharmacology
Behavioral pharmacology, also spelled behavioural pharmacology, studies how drugs alter behavior using the methods of psychology; it emerged as a distinct discipline in the 1950s.
Behavioural sciences
Behavioural sciences: empirical disciplines studying human and animal behavior and its mental causes, spanning psychology, anthropology, economics, and cognitive science; distinguished by systematic observation, experiment, and the replication-crisis-era reform of methods.
Behbeit el-Hagar
Behbeit el-Hagar (بهبيت الحجارة) is an archaeological site in Egypt's central Nile Delta, home to the ruins of a great granite temple of Isis built under Nectanebo II.
Behçet Necatigil
Behçet Necatigil, born Mehmet Behçet (1916–1979), was a Turkish poet, writer, and translator known for poems about the house, family, and everyday life of the middle-class city dweller.
Behçet's disease
Behçet's disease, also called Behçet's syndrome or Silk Road disease, is a rare chronic relapsing vasculitis causing recurrent oral and genital ulcers, uveitis, and skin lesions, strongly associated with HLA-B51 and treated with corticosteroids, colchicine, and TNF inhibitors.
Behcetü't-Tevarih
Behcetü't-Tevarih (بهجة التواريخ), a Persian-language universal history by the Ottoman historian Shukrullah, was composed in Bursa around 1456 to 1459 and is the oldest extant Ottoman history after Ahmedi's Iskender-name.
Behdad Eghbali (بهداد اقبالی)
Behdad Eghbali (بهداد اقبالی) is an Iranian-American private equity investor who co-founded Clearlake Capital in 2006 and, through the firm, took full control of Chelsea Football Club in 2026.
Behdad Salimi
Behdad Salimikordasiabi (بهداد سلیمی کردآسیابی), born 1989, Iranian super heavyweight weightlifter; 2012 Olympic +105 kg gold (455 kg), two world titles, three Asian Games golds, snatch world records of 214 and 216 kg; retired 2018.
Beheading game
Beheading game: a medieval romance motif, from Irish Fled Bricrenn (Bricriu's Feast) with Cú Chulainn to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which a hero beheads a challenger who survives and owes a return blow.
Beheading of John the Baptist
The Beheading of John the Baptist, also called the Decollation of St. John, is a Christian feast on 29 August commemorating the prophet's martyrdom by Herod Antipas.
Beheading video
Beheading video: recorded decapitation footage disseminated online, chiefly by jihadist groups; from Daniel Pearl (2002) and Nick Berg (2004) to IS's Foley video (2014), with studied production, audiences, and moderation.
Beheira Governorate
Beheira Governorate (محافظة البحيرة) is a governorate of Egypt in the western Nile Delta, with its capital at Damanhur. It ranks first in agricultural production.
Behemoth
Behemoth (בְּהֵמוֹת) is the gigantic land monster of Job 40:15–24, paired with Leviathan; identified variously as hippopotamus, mythic chaos beast, or (contested) sauropod dinosaur.
Behemoth (band)
Behemoth is a Polish extreme metal band formed in 1991 in Gdansk, fronted by Nergal; it began as black metal, evolved into blackened death metal (The Satanist, 2014), and has 13 albums including The Shit Ov God (2025).