Social Behavior

A Social Behavior is an organism behavior that involves interaction patterns between organisms of the same species, and encompasses any behavior in which one member affects the other.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) facilitate Group Coordination through communication signals and synchronized actions.
  • It can (typically) maintain Social Bonds through interaction rituals and affiliative displays.
  • It can (typically) establish Social Order through hierarchical behaviors and status recognition.
  • It can (typically) enable Resource Sharing through cooperative actions and distribution systems.
  • It can (typically) support Reproductive Success through mate selection and parental care.
  • It can (typically) enhance Survival Advantage through predator detection and collective defense.
  • It can (typically) transmit Cultural Knowledge through teaching behaviors and social learning.
  • It can (typically) resolve Group Conflict through reconciliation rituals and mediation processes.
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  • It can (often) emerge through Social Learning via observation and imitation.
  • It can (often) adapt to Social Context via behavioral modification and situational response.
  • It can (often) influence Group Dynamics through social feedback and behavioral contagion.
  • It can (often) determine Social Outcomes through exchange patterns and reciprocal obligations.
  • It can (often) develop through Evolutionary Pressure via natural selection and inclusive fitness.
  • It can (often) vary across Ecological Contexts via environmental adaptation and resource availability.
  • It can (often) demonstrate Cultural Variation through societal norms and traditional practices.
  • It can (often) change across Developmental Stages via age-specific patterns and maturation processes.
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  • It can range from being a Human Social Behavior to being an Animal Social Behavior to being an Artificial Social Behavior, depending on its agent type.
  • It can range from being a Prosocial Behavior to being an Antisocial Behavior, depending on its social impact.
  • It can range from being a Reward-Motivated Behavior Pattern to being a Punishment-Motivated Behavior, depending on its behavioral driver.
  • It can range from being a Cooperative Behavior to being a Competitive Behavior, depending on its interaction goal.
  • It can range from being an Individual Social Behavior to being a Group Social Behavior, depending on its behavioral scope.
  • It can range from being a Simple Social Behavior to being a Complex Social Behavior, depending on its interaction complexity.
  • It can range from being an Energizing Behavior to being an Enervating Behavior, depending on its social energy.
  • It can range from being an Innate Social Behavior to being a Learned Social Behavior, depending on its acquisition mechanism.
  • It can range from being a Ritualized Social Behavior to being a Spontaneous Social Behavior, depending on its behavioral structure.
  • It can range from being a Frequent Social Behavior to being a Rare Social Behavior, depending on its occurrence pattern.
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• Example(s):
  • Species Social Behaviors (to engage in social systems), such as:
    • Human Social Behaviors (to participate in human society), such as:
      • Cultural Practice like maintaining social traditions through ritual ceremonys.
      • Professional Interaction like coordinating in organizations through workplace collaboration.
      • Digital Social Behavior like maintaining online relationships through virtual interaction platforms.
      • Educational Interaction like engaging in knowledge transfer through structured learning environments.
    • Primate Social Behaviors (to maintain primate groups), such as:
      • Chimpanzee Coalition Formation like establishing strategic alliances for resource access.
      • Bonobo Conflict Resolution like employing affiliative contact for tension reduction.
      • Gorilla Display Behavior like performing dominance demonstrations for social hierarchy maintenance.
    • Animal Social Behaviors (to function in natural groups), such as:
      • Herd Behavior like coordinating group movements through leadership following.
      • Pack Behavior like organizing group hunting through role specialization.
      • Colony Behavior like maintaining division of labor through caste systems.
      • Flock Synchronization like coordinating collective flight through neighbor monitoring.
  • Resource Management Behaviors (to address group needs), such as:
    • Sharing Patterns (to distribute resources), such as:
      • Food Sharing like distributing food resources through provision allocation.
      • Territory Sharing like allowing space access through boundary negotiation.
      • Tool Sharing like providing implement access through controlled lending.
      • Information Sharing like distributing knowledge resources through teaching protocols.
    • Competition Patterns (to secure resources), such as:
      • Food Competition like defending food sources through priority access.
      • Territory Defense like protecting spatial resources through boundary marking.
      • Mate Competition like securing reproductive access through display contests.
      • Status Competition like gaining social position through dominance interactions.
  • Bonding Behaviors (to maintain group cohesion), such as:
    • Affiliative Patterns (to strengthen social ties), such as:
      • Grooming Behavior like performing mutual care through parasite removal.
      • Play Behavior like engaging in social interaction through mock competition.
      • Contact Maintenance like preserving physical proximity through touch exchange.
      • Gift Exchange like offering symbolic items through reciprocal giving.
    • Communication Patterns (to exchange information), such as:
      • Signal Exchange like using warning calls through alarm vocalization.
      • Information Sharing like teaching survival skills through demonstration learning.
      • Emotional Expression like conveying affective states through facial displays.
      • Status Communication like indicating social position through postural signals.
  • Coordination Behaviors (to achieve collective goals), such as:
    • Task Organizations (to accomplish shared objectives), such as:
      • Group Hunting like coordinating prey capture through encirclement tactics.
      • Communal Defense like protecting against predators through vigilance rotation.
      • Collective Construction like building communal structures through sequential contributions.
      • Migratory Coordination like navigating seasonal movements through leadership following.
    • Cooperative Actions (to solve group problems), such as:
      • Resource Collection like gathering food supplys through division of labor.
      • Habitat Maintenance like building shared shelters through collaborative construction.
      • Joint Problem-Solving like overcoming environmental obstacles through complementary actions.
      • Mutual Protection like ensuring group safety through sentinel behavior.
  • Status Behaviors (to establish social positions), such as:
    • Dominance Patterns (to maintain social ranks), such as:
      • Leadership Display like directing group activity through decisive action.
      • Challenge Response like defending status position through conflict engagement.
      • Resource Control like managing access priority through monopolization attempts.
      • Punishment Delivery like enforcing behavioral norms through corrective intervention.
    • Submission Patterns (to show rank acceptance), such as:
      • Deference Display like yielding to dominant members through postural signals.
      • Appeasement Signal like showing non-threat gestures through vulnerability display.
      • Reconciliation Initiative like repairing relationship damage through peace offering.
      • Status Acknowledgment like recognizing hierarchical position through approach behavior.
  • Reproductive Behaviors (to ensure species continuation), such as:
    • Courtship Patterns (to attract reproductive partners), such as:
      • Display Behavior like performing attraction rituals through physical demonstrations.
      • Gift Presentation like offering resource items through courtship rituals.
      • Territory Establishment like securing breeding locations through boundary defense.
    • Parental Behaviors (to support offspring survival), such as:
      • Protection Behavior like defending vulnerable young through threat response.
      • Provisioning Behavior like supplying nutritional resources through food delivery.
      • Teaching Behavior like transmitting survival knowledge through guided experience.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Individual Behavior, which lacks social interaction and occurs without interindividual influence.
  • Alone Time Behavior, which involves solitary activity and requires social separation.
  • Instinctive Response, which lacks social learning and operates through genetic programming.
  • Reflex Action, which lacks social purpose and functions through automatic mechanisms.
  • Solitary Behavior, which occurs without social context and persists regardless of social presence.
  • Physiological Process, which operates at the biological level rather than the social level.
  • Independent Action, which proceeds without coordination requirements or cooperative elements.
  • Species-Crossing Behavior, which involves interspecies interaction rather than intraspecies dynamics.
• See: Group Behavior, Social Learning, Social Intelligence, Social Structure, Behavioral Adaptation, Species Evolution, Animal Behavior, Human Behavior, Social Pattern, Interaction Dynamic, Shyness, Physiology, Sociology, Society, Predation, Animal Communication, Behavioral Sciences, Social Actions, Social Interaction, Social Relation, Aggression, Altruism, Collective Behavior, Cultural Transmission, Dominance Hierarchy, Eusociality, Kin Selection, Mutualism, Reciprocal Altruism, Sociobiology, Social Network Analysis, Social Evolution.

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References

2020

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_behavior Retrieved:2020-9-10.
  • Social behavior is behavior among two or more organisms within the same species, and encompasses any behavior in which one member affects the other. This is due to an interaction among those members. Social behavior can be seen as similar to an exchange of goods, with the expectation that when you give, you will receive the same. This behavior can be effected by both the qualities of the individual and the environmental (situational) factors. Therefore, social behavior arises as a result of an interaction between the two—the organism and its environment. This means that, in regards to humans, social behavior can be determined by both the individual characteristics of the person, and the situation they are in. A major aspect of social behavior is communication, which is the basis for survival and reproduction. Social behavior is said to be determined by two different processes, that can either work together or oppose one another. The dual-systems model of reflective and impulsive determinants of social behavior came out of the realization that behavior cannot just be determined by one single factor. Instead, behavior can arise by those consciously behaving (where there is an awareness and intent), or by pure impulse. These factors that determine behavior can work in different situations and moments, and can even oppose one another. While at times one can behave with a specific goal in mind, other times they can behave without rational control, and driven by impulse instead. There are also distinctions between different types of social behavior, such as mundane versus defensive social behavior. Mundane social behavior is a result of interactions in day-to-day life, and are behaviors learned as one is exposed to those different situations. On the other hand, defensive behavior arises out of impulse, when one is faced with conflicting desires.

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