APA Dictionary of Psychology
social behavior
- any action performed by interdependent conspecifics (members of the same species).
- in humans, an action that is influenced, directly or indirectly, by the actual, imagined, expected, or implied presence of others.
- any one of a set of behaviors exhibited by gregarious, communal social species, including cooperation, affiliation, altruism, and so on.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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