the.com/behaviour
What you do when a mood, an incentive, and a habit gang up on you.
means The way a person or thing acts, especially the observable pattern of what they do rather than what they claim or feel.
from From Middle English 'behaven,' built from 'be-' plus 'have' — in older English 'have' could mean 'to hold or comport oneself,' so to 'behave' was literally to 'have yourself' in a particular way. The noun picked up its extra 'u' (behaviour vs. behavior) through the same British-vs-American spelling split that gives us colour/color and honour/honor, both descending from French spelling habits layered onto English roots.
- spelling split
- british u, american drops it, same chaos
- root
- old english havian, meaning to have oneself
- science angle
- behaviourism tried to study only actions, not minds
- honest truth
- easier to change than beliefs, harder than promises