actual behaviour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofactualandbehaviour
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actual
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/us/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/
existing ...
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behaviour
noun
uk/bɪˈheɪ.vjər/us/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ/
the way that ...
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(Definition ofactualandbehaviourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Many of the studies examined only beliefs and attitudes, notactualbehaviour.
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Thus, the unemployment trap theorem includes an assumption aboutactualbehaviour: it is a hypothesis.
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Actualbehaviourhas often been inconsistent with the formal rules of the game.
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Social policies that appear unjustified or wrongly focused are of merit whenactualbehaviouris considered.
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First, the scale focused on frequency ofactualbehaviourrather than the strength of illness attitudes or cognitions.
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First, the findings relied on self-reports of exchange rather thanactualbehaviour, so a reporting bias is possible.
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While functional limitation refers to personal capabilities, disability refers toactualbehaviour, evaluated relative to environmental demands.
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The self-report nature of the questionnaire means that we do not know how accurately it reflectsactualbehaviour.
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The interview is directed towardsactualbehaviourand performance in each area and is rated on a fourpoint scale.
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We address this question by measuring people's behavioural intentions, which should be more predictive ofactualbehaviour.
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Finally, the predictions generated by both models can be tested against theactualbehaviourof actors in empirical contexts.
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An understanding of informal rules that shape incentives is essential whereactualbehaviouris inconsistent with constitutional provisions.
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Theactualbehaviourof the program at run-time is more important than the lexical relationships within the original source code.
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It was found that to some extent the teachers' beliefs were in accordance with theiractualbehaviour, and at times not so.
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Theactualbehaviourof the coordination artifact is not reported for brevity, but its details are of no concern for the interaction semantics of agents.
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What is generally overlooked is that this is no more than a hypothesis aboutactualbehaviour, a hypothesis that can be subjected to an empirical test.
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The results described in this paper clearly demonstrate that not only attitudes but alsoactualbehaviourcan be viewed as rational in the area of family planning.
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It may be almost impossible in the course of an interview to differentiate between respondents'actualbehaviourand their accounts of their behaviour, where these differ.
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To answer that question, we need to understand what these parties do to recapture political ascendancy and whether theiractualbehaviourdiffers from their optimal behaviour.
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The delays with which theactualbehaviourof fiscal variables becomes known, coupled with the fact that announcements of fiscal policy favoured austerity, may have played some role.
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We believe that these measures are more predictive of people'sactualbehaviour, lending greater support for our findings and allowing us to go even further in substantiating the minority-majority distinction.
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Filial obligations are here taken as subjective norms that, with attitudes and perceived opportunities, are the independent variables which structure intentions andactualbehaviour, the dependent or outcome variables.
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It would also surprise me if it could be argued that there is any widespread decline inactualbehaviourpatterns.
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