situational constraints
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsituationalandconstraint
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situational
adjective
uk/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən.əl/us/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən.əl/
related to or changing with a particular ...
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constraint
noun
uk/kənˈstreɪnt/us/kənˈstreɪnt/
something that controls what you do by keeping you within ...
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As we noted, the classic work on conformity, obedience, and bystander behavior was designed to identify important situational constraints on the basic effects.
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Contextual adequacy: very few existing theories can explain situational constraints, but some can.
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Because the laboratory experiment is an artificial, isolated event without the normal situational constraints on behavior, participants are extremely sensitive to cues from the experimenter.
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Thus, situational constraints may interact with individual differences to lead to particularly vexing circumstances for aggressive children.
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True, chimps exhibit many commonalities with our own gestures, but biomechanical and situational constraints may limit the range of options, with analogy rather than homology operating.
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In other words, while the foregoing discussion was essentially about the potential in motivations and the situational constraints, we need to go beyond this to consider fulfilment with actual relationships.
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We need to make deliberate and conscious effort to adjust our inference by considering the situational constraints.
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Customers may repurchase a brand due to situational constraints (such as vendor lock-in), a lack of viable alternatives, or out of convenience.
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Behaviors can also be restricted by external or situational constraints which refer to restrictions outside the individuals control, such as economic or political factors.
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Blake (1999) argues that the relationship between attitudes and behaviors is moderated by the structure of personal attitudes themselves; and external or situational constraints.
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