behavior vs behaviour
Definitions
noun
- the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
- (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
- manner of acting or controlling yourself
- (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
Examples
The warden of prisons was contacted for information on the convict's behavior on the chain gang, or in a few cases on the State Farm.
A lot of human nature can be traced to instinctive behaviors evolved in harder times.
Supporting characters with their own solid fan base is a bit of a scifi phenomena and Atlantis is the poster child for this kind of fannish behavior.
Definitions
noun
- the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
- (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
- manner of acting or controlling yourself
- (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
Examples
Your behaviour has occasioned us a great deal of anxiety.
One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today.
Beck, who has a PhD in erotology - the study of how art, literature and cultural behaviours influence human sexuality - is a bit of a virgin expert.
