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behavioural

UK/bɪˈheɪvjərəl/US/bɪˈheɪvjɚəl/
adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,262 of 15,258leans written

Behavioural means to do with how people or animals act. Behavioural science, behavioural problems, a behavioural change.

Behavioural economics is the field that studies how people actually decide rather than how a rational agent would, and it has changed policy in a way few academic fields do. This is the British spelling; American writing has behavioral without the u.

Definitions of behavioural

  1. 1adjectivebehaviouralTo do with how people or animals act.B2+

    “The boy's behavioural problems improved once he moved to a smaller school.”

behavioural is a quality of action.

Also accepted in games: behavioral

Where it comes from

From behaviour + -al.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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behavioural in the wild

  • All approaches of design for behaviour change acknowledge that artifacts have an important influence on human behaviour and/or behavioural decisions.

    Behavioural design

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.