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• Youth Risk Behavior Survey — The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is a biannual survey of adolescent health risk and health protective behaviors such as smoking, drinking, drug use, diet, and physical activity conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It… …   Wikipedia

• Behavior-based safety — (BBS) is the ”application of science of behavior change to real world problems”. [Staff. “How Does Behavioral Safety work?” Cambridge Center for Behavior Studies. ] BBS “focuses on what people do, analyzes why they do it, and then applies a… …   Wikipedia

• risk — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, considerable, enormous, grave, great, high, huge, major, serious, significant …   Collocations dictionary

• Risk compensation — In ethology, risk compensation is an effect whereby individual people may tend to adjust their behavior in response to perceived changes in risk. It is seen as self evident that individuals will tend to behave in a more cautious manner if their… …   Wikipedia

• Risk aversion — is a concept in psychology, economics, and finance, based on the behavior of humans (especially consumers and investors) while exposed to uncertainty. Risk aversion is the reluctance of a person to accept a bargain with an uncertain payoff rather …   Wikipedia

• Risk — takers redirects here. For the Canadian television program, see Risk Takers. For other uses, see Risk (disambiguation). Risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity (including the choice of inaction) will lead to a loss (an undesirable… …   Wikipedia

• Behavior change (public health) — Behavior change has become a central objective of public health interventions over the last half decade, as the influence of prevention within the health services has increased. The increased influence of prevention has coincided with increased… …   Wikipedia

• Behavior analysis of child development — Child development in behavior analytic theory has origins in John B. Watson s behaviorism.[1] Watson wrote extensively on child development and conducted research (see Little Albert experiment). Watson was instrumental in the modification of… …   Wikipedia

• Behavior Change Communication — BCC: Going beyond simple teaching and instruction …   Wikipedia

• Risk dominance — Infobox equilibrium name = Risk dominance Payoff dominance subsetof = Nash equilibrium supersetof = discoverer = John Harsanyi, Reinhard Selten usedfor = Non cooperative games example = Stag huntRisk dominance and payoff dominance are two related …   Wikipedia

• Risk neutral — In economics, risk neutral behavior is in between risk aversion and risk seeking. If offered either 50 EUR or a 50% chance of 100 EUR, a risk averse person will take the 50 EUR, a risk seeking person will take the 50% chance of 100 EUR, and a… …   Wikipedia