Inhibition of Imitative Behavior

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Wanda Wyrwicka
Keyword(s):  
Imitative Behavior

Violence on Television and Imitative Behavior: Impact on Parenting Practices

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 1120-1123
Author(s):  
Robert Wharton ◽  
Frederick Mandell
Keyword(s):  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Parental Behavior ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Imitative Behavior ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Early Medical Intervention ◽  
Television Violence ◽  
The Impact

In the past 30 years, four federal government commissions have reported on the relationship between television violence and aggressive behavior. The latest report concluded categorically that there is a causal relationship between television violence and aggressive behavior. Two infants were seen at an emergency room as a direct consequence of their socially isolated single mothers seeing a particular made-for-television movie. In one case, the infant died as a possible result of a parent imitating an act of child abuse; in the other case, early medical intervention precluded possible tragedy. These cases illustrate another way in which children may be victimized by violence on television; namely, by parents imitating inappropriate parental behavior. The origins of imitative behavior are discussed with specific reference to the impact on vulnerable parents. The concept of media-influenced parenting behavior is presented and implications for physicians are discussed.

Modeling Financial Bubbles and Market Crashes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Sornette
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Hazard Rate ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Imitative Behavior ◽  
Rational Model ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Speculative Bubbles ◽  
Financial Bubbles ◽  
Market Crashes

This chapter considers two versions of a rational model of speculative bubbles and stock market crashes. According to the first version, stock market prices are driven by the crash hazard that may increase sometimes due to the collective behavior of “noise traders.” The second version assumes the opposite: the crash hazard is driven by prices that may soar sometimes, again due to investors' speculative or imitative behavior. The chapter first provides an overview of what a model is before discussing the basic principles of model construction in finance. It then describes the basic ingredients of the two models of speculative bubbles and market crashes, along with the main properties of the risk-driven model. It also examines how imitation and herding drive the crash hazard rate and concludes with an analysis of the price-driven model, how imitation and herding drive the market price, and how the price return drives the crash hazard rate.

Effect of Nurturance on Imitative Behavior

1971 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-202
Author(s):  
Coby S. Jasperse ◽  
Suus M. J. V. Hekken
Keyword(s):  
Imitative Behavior ◽  
Partial Replication ◽  
Individual Session ◽  
Task Irrelevant

A partial replication of Mussen and Parker (1965) tested the hypothesis that a model's nurturance enhances the imitation of task-relevant behavior but not of task-irrelevant behavior. S either interacted for 15 min. with a friendly model or played for 15 min. by herself. In a subsequent individual session the model solved three Porteus Mazes during which she performed also four irrelevant acts. Thereafter, the 24 girls had to solve the same mazes. The results confirmed the hypothesis.

scholarly journals When actions are carved at the joints

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 691-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merideth Gattis ◽  
Harold Bekkering ◽  
Andreas Wohlschläger
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Imitative Behavior ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Observed Behavior

We focus on Byrne & Russon's argument that program-level imitation is driven by hierarchically organized goals, and the related claim that to establish whether observed behavior is evidence of program-level imitation, empirical studies of imitation must use multi-stage actions as imitative tasks. We agree that goals play an indispensable role in the generation of action and imitative behavior but argue that multi-goal tasks, not only multi-stage tasks, reveal program-level imitation.

Imitation in the Family: A Study of Older Parents and their Adult Sons

1976 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger D. Fallot ◽  
George F. Mahl
Keyword(s):  
Imitative Behavior ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Older Parents ◽  
Interpersonal Perceptions ◽  
Adult Sons ◽  
The Family

Older parents and their adult sons (fifteen father-mother-son triads) participated in this study which investigated whether imitative behavior is prominent in these families and whether interpersonal perceptions are related to the degree of imitation. Both perceptual and moral imitation tasks were used and personality descriptions were obtained on dimensions of activity, potency, and evaluation. Adult sons were found to imitate their parents on both tasks and particularly their fathers on moral issues. Older parents also were found to imitate their sons in a possible “reversal” of the direction of identification. Differential patterns of interpersonal perceptions were related to imitation for the three groups. Potential theoretical explanations are discussed.

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