behavioral

See also: béhavioral

English

Alternative forms

• behavioural (Commonwealth English)

Etymology

From behavior +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɪˈheɪvjəɹəl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɪˈheɪvjəɹəl/, /bəˈheɪvjəɹəl/

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Adjective

behavioral (not comparable)

1. (American spelling) Of or relating to behavior.
   • 2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:

     Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.

Derived terms

• behavioral contagion
• behavioral crisis
• behavioral economics
• behavioral economist
• behavioral force
• behavioralist
• behaviorally
• behavioral objective
• behavioral pattern
• behavioral psychology
• behavioral science
• behavioral sink
• behavioral subtyping
• biobehavioral
• cognitive behavioral therapist
• cognitive behavioral therapy
• dialectical behavioral therapy
• interbehavioral
• macrobehavioral
• neurobehavioral
• nonbehavioral
• pharmacobehavioral
• postbehavioral
• psychobehavioral
• serobehavioral
• trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy

Related terms

• behaviorism
• behaviorist

Translations

of or relating to behavior

French: comportemental (fr) Italian: comportamentale (it) Polish: behawioralny (pl) (psychology, biology) Portuguese: comportamental (pt) Russian: поведе́нческий (ru) (povedénčeskij) Spanish: del comportamiento, conductual Turkish: davranışsal (tr)