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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEHAVIOURAL SINK

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Behavioural sink is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BEHAVIOURAL SINK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Behavioral sink

The ethologist John B. Calhoun coined the term "behavioral sink" to describe the collapse in behavior which resulted from overcrowding. Over a number of years, Calhoun conducted over-population experiments on rats which culminated in 1962 with the publication of an article in the Scientific American of a study of behavior under conditions of overcrowding. In it, Calhoun coined the term "behavioral sink". Calhoun's work became used as an animal model of societal collapse, and his study has become a touchstone of urban sociology and psychology in general. In it, Calhoun described the behavior as follows: Calhoun would continue his experiments for many years, but the publication of the 1962 article put the concept in the public domain, where it took root in popular culture as an analogy for human behavior. Calhoun retired from NIMH in 1984, but continued to work on his research results until his death on September 7, 1995.

Definition of behavioural sink in the English dictionary

The definition of behavioural sink in the dictionary is a small area in which people or animals live in overcrowded conditions.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEHAVIOURAL SINK

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WORDS THAT END LIKE BEHAVIOURAL SINK

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Translation of «behavioural sink» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEHAVIOURAL SINK

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The translations of behavioural sink from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «behavioural sink» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

行为的沉沦
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fregadero de comportamiento
570 millions of speakers

English

behavioural sink
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

व्यवहार सिंक
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

بالوعة السلوكي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

поведенческая раковина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pia comportamental
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আচরণগত ডুবন্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

évier comportementale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tenggelam tingkah laku
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verhaltens Waschbecken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

行動シンク
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

행동 싱크
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sinki prilaku
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chìm hành vi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நடத்தை மடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वागणूक वियोग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Davranışsal lavabo
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lavello comportamentale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

umywalka behawioralne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поведінкова раковина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

chiuveta de comportament
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συμπεριφοράς νεροχύτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gedrags- sink
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

beteende sink
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

atferds vasken
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEHAVIOURAL SINK»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEHAVIOURAL SINK»

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Designing High-Density Cities: For Social and Environmental ...
The result was violence, harassing of females, failure to complete nest building, abortions and many other socially pathological features of what Calhoun called the 'behavioural sink', Since Calhoun had still maintained adequate food supply ...
Edward Ng, 2009
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How Well Do Facts Travel?: The Dissemination of Reliable ...
While it is for the term “behavioural sink” that Calhoun is best remembered, he considered his concept of “social velocity” to be equally, if not more, important ( Calhoun 1977, p. 30). This was a measure of social interaction by which one ranked ...
Peter Howlett, Mary S. Morgan, 2010
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The Sink: The Last Days of Driving
Rage rules on our roads as we slide ever further into the behavioural sink. Drivers routinely ram and even shoot each other as they mindlessly race against the clock. But a few who are still sane, fed up with the punishment they take from the ...
Wendel Messer, 2002
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Environmental Psychology: Behaviour and Experience In Context
(1994) compared density and crowding in 2017 Box 28: The behavioural sink households in Bangkok, Thailand. They found a very modest relationship,. While there are many problems with animal studies in terms of both the ethics involved  ...
Tony Cassidy, 2013
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Beginning Psychology
... 70-1 Bass, 144 Bateson, P. P. G., 152 bedwetting, 160 Bee, H., 281 behavioural categories, 351 Behaviour sequences, 324 behavioural sink, 126 Belbin, E. and R. M., 66 Bem Sandra, 190 Berko,J.,277 Bernstein, 337 Biller, H. B., 162 Binet, ...
Malcolm Hardy, Steve Heyes, 1999
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The Geography of the Third World: Progress and Prospect
Geography, 70, 193-205 Reiser, R.L. (1973) The territorial illusion and behavioural sink: critical notes on behavioural geography. Antipode, 5, 52-7 Richards, P. (1985) Indigenous agricultural revolution. Hutchinson, London ( 1986) Coping ...
Michael Pacione, 2012
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Unbuilt Calgary: A History of the City That Might Have Been
Legislation's only use to society is the maintenance of pleasure rather than pain, and to that end, when the industrial city began to be problematized as a behavioural sink that results from overcrowding, the shape of the city became an  ...
Stephanie White, 2012
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Population Education
V. K. Rao. and wounding deteriorating health in the majority of the population, abnormal aggregations of individuals in the 'behavioural sink' pattern and finally population decline. Social behaviour in population regulation The detailed study to ...
V. K. Rao, 2001
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Managing Aggressive Behaviour in Care Settings: ...
Animal studies made famous by Calhoun (1962) show that crowding in the animal world results in what he calls the behavioural sink. In his now-classic study Calhoun provided a cage of rats with food and water that was replenished to support ...
Andrew A. McDonnell, 2011
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Urbanisation and Planning in the Third World: Spatial ...
Rieser, R. (1973): "The territorial illusion and behavioural sink: critical notes on behavioural geography", Antipode, 5, 52-7. Roberts, B. R. (1978): Cities of Peasants: the Political Economy of Urbanization in the Third World. Arnold: London.
Robert Potter, 2012

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEHAVIOURAL SINK»

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Polish robber may be in Essex, police fear
... Behavioural sink ( social density ) - was an experiment concerning ..... regarding the Behavioural sink experiments was not from the SUN - «Echo, Mar 15»
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Secret of NIMH Was Inspired by Hideous Lab Experiments
Calhoun called this vortex "a behavioural sink". Their numbers fell into terminal decline and the population tailed off to extinction. «Gizmodo, Oct 14»
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Is living in cities making us unhappy and dysfunctional?
Calhoun coined the term 'behavioural sink' to describe this decay in society, and was firmly of the belief that human society could malfunction ... «Yahoo News UK, Jan 14»

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