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Database of Behaviors (275 Entries)

Behaviors are the real-world actions of people. These include social behaviors that relate to other people and personal behaviors that relate to how you behave on your own.

All (275)

Positive (158)

Negative (50)

Neutral (20)

Personal Behavior (30)

Social Behavior (80)

Acceptance of Others	Accepting Accountability
Accomplishing Things	Achieving Goals
Acknowledging Mistakes	Acknowledging Others
Adapting	Admiring
Advancing	Advising
Advocating For Something or Someone	Affection
Agreeing	Altruism
Analyzing	Answering
Apologizing	Arguing
Asking Questions	Assertiveness
Assisting	Attendance
Attentiveness	Avoidance
Balancing	Befriending Others
Being Calm	Being Confident
Being Creative	Being Curious
Being Fair	Being Flexible
Being Outgoing	Being Reliable
Being Smug	Being Yourself
Believing	Betraying
Blaming	Bravery
Building Goodwill	Building Rapport
Building Things	Building Trust
Building Upon The Ideas of Others	Bullying
Caregiving	Caring
Celebrating	Challenging Assumptions
Changing	Chatting
Cheating	Clarifying
Collaborating	Commanding
Communicating	Compassion
Competing	Complaining
Complimenting Others	Compromising
Compulsive Behaviors	Concentrating
Confirming	Confronting
Connecting	Considering
Contemplation	Contributing
Cooperation	Counseling
Courage	Creating
Criticizing	Debating
Deceit	Decisiveness
Defending	Defining
Delaying	Delivering to Commitments
Demanding	Demonstrating Commitment
Demonstrating Dedication	Demonstrating Humility
Demonstrating Respect	Depending on Others
Designing	Determination
Developing	Diligence
Disagreeing	Discerning
Discipline	Discovering
Discussing	Disengaging
Dismissing	Disputing
Disrespecting	Disrupting
Distracting	Distrusting
Doing Good	Empathizing
Emphasizing	Encouraging Others
Enduring	Engaging
Entertaining	Envisioning
Establishing	Evaluating
Exaggerating	Excluding
Expanding	Experiencing
Explaining	Exploring
Expressing Gratitude	Facilitating
Failing	Faithfulness
Flourishing	Focusing
Following	Forgiveness
Fostering	Gathering
Generating	Generosity
Giving	Gossiping
Helping Others	Hindering
Honesty	Honoring Commitments
Hosting	Humiliating
Ignoring	Improving
Inciting	Including Others
Influencing	Inquiring
Inspiring Others	Insulting
Interacting	Interfering
Intervening	Intimidating
Introducing People	Introspecting
Investigating	Inviting
Isolating	Joining
Kindness	Laziness
Leading	Learning
Listening	Loving
Loyalty	Lying
Making Decisions	Making Friends
Malicious Compliance	Managing
Manipulating	Mediating
Mentoring	Monitoring
Motivating	Neglecting
Negotiating	Networking
Observing	Obstructing
Offending	Opposing
Oppressing	Optimizing
Organizing	Overcoming Adversity
Panicking	Participating
Passive Aggressive Behavior	Patience
Patronizing	Persecuting
Perseverance	Persisting
Persuading	Planning
Playing	Politeness
Positioning	Practicing
Praising	Preparing
Presenting	Pressuring
Pretending	Procrastinating
Promoting	Proposing
Providing Feedback	Provoking
Pursuing Goals	Pursuing Interests
Rallying	Ranting
Reaffirming	Reassuring Others
Recommending	Reconciling
Recovering From Failure	Reflecting
Regret	Reinforcing
Rejecting	Rejoicing
Relating to Others	Relaxing
Relying	Renewing
Replying	Representing
Resourcefulness	Responding
Sabotaging	Self-Awareness
Selflessness	Sharing
Showing Appreciation	Showing Respect
Showing You Care	Simplifying
Social Loafing	Solving Problems
Staying In Touch	Stifling
Suffering	Suggesting
Supporting Ideas	Supporting Others
Suppressing	Sustaining
Sympathizing	Taking Initiative
Taking Responsibility	Talking
Teaching	Teamwork
Teasing	Thanking
Thinking	Threatening
Thriving	Transforming
Trusting Others	Trying
Undermining	Undervaluing
Uniting	Validating
Volunteering	Warmth
Wasting	Welcoming
Withdrawing	Withholding
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Positive Behaviors

Positive behaviors are actions that are constructive and friendly whereby they seek to build things up and interact cooperatively with others. This sounds straightforward enough but classifying behavior as positive or negative is surprisingly complex. For example, passive aggressive behavior where a person appears to be positive on the surface but has negative intent behind their actions and communication.

Definition of Positive Behavior

Actions and communication driven by constructive, cooperative and friendly intentions.

Positive behaviors are defined by intentions and can include things like toxic positivity or unintended consequences that produce negative outcomes. In other words, positive behavior isn't always positive in terms of its effects even where your intentions are good.

Negative Behavior

Negative behavior are actions that are unfriendly or that seek to tear down as opposed to building up. This is also surprisingly hard to identify. For example, critical thinking and challenging assumptions may be slightly negative on the surface but are merely intended to be intellectually robust and honest.

At some point, there is a line where complete honesty can be perceived as negative such as telling people about their negative traits without considering how this might make them feel.

Definition of Negative Behavior

Actions and communication driven by destructive or unfriendly intentions.

Behaviors that are negative on the surface may be fully based on reasonable and constructive intentions. For example, rejecting peer pressure whereby you are simply defending and asserting your independence from your peers. Overall, classifying a behavior as positive or negative requires a look at the nuance of each situation.

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