What's the difference between behaviour and histrionics?

Behaviour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (3) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
  • (4) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
  • (5) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
  • (6) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
  • (7) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
  • (8) Socio-economic improvement or behavioural changes appear necessary for the control of trachoma in endemic areas.
  • (9) Isolates showed a decrease in the intensity of apomorphine-induced stereotyped behaviours but no change in stereotypy induced by AMPH.
  • (10) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
  • (11) There were no significant effects of chlordiazepoxide treatment on the behaviour of subordinate rats.
  • (12) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
  • (13) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
  • (14) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
  • (15) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
  • (16) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
  • (17) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
  • (18) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
  • (19) There was no evidence of a response to the specific behavioural suggestion during the postoperative interview.
  • (20) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .

Histrionics


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Others have found more striking-power, or more simple poetry, but none an interpretation at once so full (in the sense of histrionic volume) and so consistently bringing all the aspects together, without any shirking or pruning away of what is inconvenient.
  • (2) At the scale level, an analysis of variance (ANOVA) demonstrated that the scores obtained by the Black and White groups were significantly different in 9 of the 20 scales (Histrionic, Narcissistic, Antisocial, Paraphrenia, Hypomania, Dysthymia, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, and Psychotic Delusion).
  • (3) Oscar Pistorius was accused on Monday of deliberately breaking down into tearful histrionics to avoid difficult questions about the night he shot dead his girlfriend.
  • (4) I predict another penalty shootout, with it going the same way as 2006, but perhaps without the Argentine histrionics afterwards.
  • (5) There is one very obvious potential role model, and it is emphatically not that of her histrionic late mother-in-law – rather the Windsors' stalwart, long-serving and self-effacing patriarch.
  • (6) For patients and informants, NAR PD scores (i.e., the number of positive NAR PD criteria for each subject) were significantly correlated with histrionic (HIS) and borderline (BOR) PD scores and with scores of some PDs outside DSM-III-R's "cluster B."
  • (7) Kabuki as we see it today - in, for example, Shunkan or The Scene on Devil's Island, one of the greatest in the repertoire - is action-packed, scenically thrilling and histrionically flamboyant.
  • (8) This paper argues that the antisocial and histrionic disorders have cultural histories, representing (in extreme form) values strongly congruent with familiar cultural stereotypes: the 'independent' male and the 'dependent' female.
  • (9) Men scored significantly higher on the paranoid, schizoid, compulsive, antisocial, and narcissistic dimensions, whereas women had significantly higher histrionic, dependent, and avoidant scores.
  • (10) Antisocial, histrionic, narcissistic, borderline, and compulsive personalities have been associated with lying.
  • (11) Significantly more histrionics were coded for the type of repression in which the threatening figure is transformed into a harmless object (code 1:42), while animal- and statue-repressions, when combined (codes 1:1 and 1:2), were significantly more characteristic of the nonhistrionic group.
  • (12) It was his pantomime of histrionic shock at the news he'd got through to the finals that kicked off the public hate campaign.
  • (13) A common marital pattern was noted: a dependent, histrionic wife and an emotionally detached husband.
  • (14) There was a significant positive correlation between histrionic traits and activity level and a significant negative correlation between sociability and heart rate.
  • (15) The media might hold the likes of Terry up as heroes and let them get away with such histrionics every Saturday afternoon, but it's painful to watch eight-year-olds mimicking that sort of behaviour even in the playground.
  • (16) The authors suggest that histrionic individuals develop antisocial personality if they are male and somatization disorder if female; moreover, all three conditions may represent alternative manifestations or different stages of the same underlying diathesis.
  • (17) Within the histrionic disturbance of the personality there was a clear predominance of women, whereas in the others types, no significant differences were observed.
  • (18) As a mixed (borderline-histrionic) personality, the patient possibly might have dissociated under stressful life circumstances.
  • (19) The battery consisted of items tapping anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, phobias, borderline personality disorder, and histrionic, obsessive-compulsive, and paranoid personality styles.
  • (20) The most common PDQ diagnoses were schizotypal, histrionic, and borderline disorders, but avoidant and dependent personality features also occurred.