#Behavioral Science

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Memory Case ~Rita Calhoun xFem Smart!Wife!Reader

Summary— Some at-home fluff, Rita is working on her case that’s he’s taken home, while talking with her wife. Thoughts and conversations about memory ensue.

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Warnings: all fluff, some science talk, talk of trauma, kissing, happy endings, etc.

Enjoy (;

It was the evening, and you and Rita had found a comfortable routine of doing your late night work at the dining table together, that way you two felt like you were still spending some time together as your jobs ate away your free time.

As you were nose deep into some paperwork, the sound of your name on the other woman’s tongue pulled your gaze up towards her.

“Mmmmm…?” You hum.

Rita paused for a moment, paper and pen in hand, tilting her head at something she was looking at. Your brows raised in curiosity.

“What’s up, babe?” You verbally asked.

“What’s the earliest memory you have…?” The brunette asked out of the blue, obviously having a train of thought behind her words, but having not yet revealed her thinking to you.

You thought about it for a moment, leaning back in your chair.

“Ummmmm… probably my childhood home… when I was around 2 to 3 years old… I remember the street I used to live on, and all the leaves falling because it was fall.” You replied.

Rita finally meets your gaze with a curious look on her face, her contemplation running deep.

“Huh. Interesting…” she commented, before scribbling something down on her notepad.

You put your things aside for a moment, your attention now grabbed.

“Why…?”

“I’ve been thinking about memory a lot recently…” she hummed, going back to her files.

You nodded along in intrigue.

“For a case?”

Rita took a prompt breath and nodded.

“What about it…?” You asked.

The woman then stopped what she was doing to collect her thoughts and meet your gaze once more.

“It’s correlation with how we process… how we remember certain things… how trauma can block certain memories…” She paused for a moment, “I’m thinking of using it as a defense…”

You nodded along, listening to the woman, as she went back to working.

“What do you know about memory?”

Rita snorted a little. Her snorts always made you melt.

“Not much. You?”

“A good deal.”

At your words, Rita put her things down and looked at you once more.

“Really?”

“Baby, I’m a therapist. Memory is like my domain.” You chuckled with a shrug.

Her hands then came forward above the table, nonchalantly prompting you to fill her in.

“Do tell.” She said, cocking her brow in wait.

You chuckled lightly and nodded, pursing your lips and thinking of where to begin, already picking up your hands in preparation to lecture the brunette on your expertise.

“Ok so firstly, Memory can be defined as the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Now there are generally four different kinds of recognized memory— those are sensory memory, short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory.” You explain, waving your hands about in the way you always did when you were teaching.

Rita tilted her head and listened with intent, nodding along to show her understanding. Her eyes softened at the sight of your hand gestures. She found them to be the cutest rhing.

“Alright, I follow.”

“Good. So according to Baddeley and Hitch, the following is how memory works. First comes the input, this is filtered through our sensory memory, which is where the processing starts. Then with attention, the information moves to the short-term memory, this is where information can be stored for a brief period of time. Another word for this hold is the Central Executive, this is the function of working memory that delegates what information should be retained and processed and what should be forgotten. From there, the information stays in the working memory, able to go to the Visuospatial Sketchpad or the Phonological Loop, the former is for visual and spatial processing, the latter for auditory processing. Still following?”

At this point, Rita had started taking notes, and she eagerly looked up and nodded, prompting you to continue.

“Good good. So from there from the working memory, the information can go to the episodic buffer and then to long-term memory. That’s the basics, it can get more complicated easily, but that’s what I would teach anyone interested in starting to understand memory.” You explain.

Rita lets out an intriguing hum, and you can see the cogs turning in her brain behind those dazzling eyes.

“So what if someone can’t remember what they did…?” The brunette asked.

“Well sometimes it’s because you forget the exact neural pathway, the recollection to the memory. Memory goes through the episodic buffer, something that helps you recall things in episodes or in correlation. When you trigger memories near the one you’ve forgotten, you can recall the one you don’t remember.”

“Hmmmmm I see.” Rita mused aloud, “And trauma?”

You pursed your lips and nodded with a sigh.

“That’s more complicated… Trauma has a way of building blocks or obstacles let’s say for you to access the traumatic memories. It’s best to uncover those with a professional.” You explain.

“And how do you know if it’s just forgotten or if it’s trauma…? I want to make a case for trauma but I don’t want it to bite me in the ass if he suddenly remembers it all.” Rita explained.

You nod again.

“I see. Well then I would say get him clinically evaluated. They should be able to tell you if it’s suppressed, repressed, or just forgotten.”

Rita smiled lightly at your words and nodded in agreement. She didn’t respond immediately, seemingly in thought.

“You okay, babe?” You asked, sitting up a little.

Rita nodded, standing up and making her way over to you. She came up behind you, wrapping her arms around your frame.

“I love you. You know that?” She purred.

You blushed and squirmed in your seat a little. Even to this day, your wife using the L word made you all giddy.

“I love you too, Rita” you hummed.

The woman then swiveled your head to the side and gently connected your lips together. You pressed into the light, caring kiss with a hum of contentment.

“How’d I get so lucky with a genius like you?” She chuckled into your lips.

You shrugged accompanied by a little giggle, as Rita drew you out of your seat and into her close embrace. She literally kissed your breath away. You couldn’t have asked for a more perfect partner.

~~~

Rita Calhoun Masterlist

[a-pillar-of-love]

"Standing up for yourself looks different, each and every time. Sometimes it requires you to be loud, but most times requires silence. An inexactitude of madness, but controlled so effortlessly. It's analyzing the situation, and then recognizing needs. It's what happens in the middle, you may bend but don't you break.. Although the storms can be tiring, you are the pillar of love and strength."

Morgan Manifests xo

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His gay little strut at the end kills me

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Sudden abrupt changes in your life/environment can cause your perspective of reality to become distorted. You’re grieving your old self/life, and your old self is fighting back. You can get over that by talking to your old self, explaining that they’re not dying/going away forever, that you still need and cherish them. You just need them to calm down and be patient for a while while you figure out how to frame your new life change in a positive light for every part of your mind. Do that enough and you’ll have access to every part of your mind/brain at the same time. Your brain will rewire itself and you’ll be able to create new connections from grey matter instantly. It’ll work more like a quantum computer than anything else.

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Jane Goodall: A Legacy of Compassion and Scientific Discovery

In the lush forests of Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, a young British woman embarked on a journey that would forever alter our understanding of the animal kingdom and our place within it. Jane Goodall, with her unwavering patience and innate compassion, opened the world’s eyes to the complex social structures, emotional depth, and cognitive abilities of chimpanzees, our closest living…

[rossmarus]

Social media is just not producing the dopamine like it used to but i just read a book all about behavioral science in terms of animal training (How To Train Your Dog With Love and Science by Annie Grossman) and it makes it all make sense

[kiragecko]

Just watched Tom Scott (and Gretchen McCulloch)'s video Why Do We Move Our Hands When We Talk? It reminded me of a curiosity I've had for a while.

Are there any good studies out there on abnormal gestural language use in ADHD people?

I know there are a bunch on autistic body/gestural language. But in my experience, ADHD people also have body language that is offputting to neurotypicals. ("Too large/wild.") And they tend to rely on it more than their peers.

I also wonder if faceblind people or more or less reliant on gestures. If avoiding eye-contact corresponds to a higher focus on body language.

Anyone know of any studies?

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[unfinishedsweaters]

So apparently if I think I am anonymous on the internet, I will just run around booping everyone I run across who’s available to boop (caveats: I thought this was a nice thing, not an aggro thing), and then in the morning when the booping thing is running full speed I will realize I was not anonymously delighting people with mystery affection, and uh, well,

(b)oops

[hollymbryan]

Blog Tour: Top 5 Reasons to Read SOME SHALL BREAK by Ellie Marney! #tbrbeyondtours

Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the TBR and Beyond Tours blog + bookstagram tour for Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney, the sequel to 2020’s breakout hit None Shall Sleep! I absolutely loved the first book and this follow-up, and below you’ll find my top 5 reasons to read the series!

About the Book

title: Some Shall Break (None Shall Sleep #2) author: Ellie Marney publisher: Little, Brown release date: 6 June 2023

This sequel to the New York Times bestselling None Shall Sleep is an equally electrifying, chilling thriller that brings us back into the lives of junior FBI consultants Travis Bell and Emma Lewis with a new case that may unravel everything they’ve been working for.

After a harrowingly close contact with juvenile sociopath Simon Gutmunsson, junior FBI consultants Emma Lewis and Travis Bell went their separate ways: Emma rejected her Quantico offer and Travis stayed to train within a new unit of the FBI Behavioral Science division. But the unit’s latest case is feeling eerily familiar and Kristin Gutmunsson—Simon Gutmunsson’s eccentric twin—reaches out to Travis to send a warning: Emma is in peril. When Travis and Kristin turn up evidence that points back to Daniel Huxton, the serial killer that Emma had escaped, things become more complicated. With a copycat on the loose, Emma returns to Quantico and is thrown back into her past traumas. Compelled to prevent more tragedy—even if it means putting herself in danger—Emma turns to Simon for help once again. But Simon is keeping secrets that could impact their entire investigation. Will the team be able to stop the Huxton copycat before time runs out for his next victims?

Content Warning: Murder, gore, trauma, sexual assault, sexism, violence, drug use, racism

Add to Goodreads: Some Shall Break (None Shall Sleep #2) Purchase the Book: Amazon | B&N | Bookshop.org

About the Author

Ellie Marney is a NYT bestselling author of crime fiction. Her most recent book is The Killing Code, and her other titles include the Aurealis-winning None Shall Sleep, the Every series – starting with Every Breath – and the companion novel No Limits, White Night, and the Circus Hearts series, starting with Circus Hearts 1. Ellie’s next book, Some Shall Break, the sequel to None Shall Sleep, will be released June 2023.

Ellie’s books are published in eleven countries and have been optioned for television. She’s spent a lifetime researching in mortuaries, talking to autopsy specialists, and asking former spies how to make explosives from household items, and now she lives quite sedately in south-eastern Australia with her family.

Connect with Ellie: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | Facebook

Top 5 Reasons to Read

I must admit I’m kind of glad this isn’t a traditional review because I’d just be gushing incoherently about how freaking much I loved Some Shall Break (and its predecessor, None Shall Sleep). So instead of rambling, let me give you my top 5 reasons to read this incredible series!

1. The early 1980s setting had me nostalgic for my childhood! Granted, I was only 7 in 1982, but I loved all the little references to things I remember from that time - songs, fashion, cars, etc.

2. I loved getting a (fictional) peek inside the beginnings of the FBI’s now-famed Behavioral Science Unit, which quickly became the gold standard for serial killer profiling.

3. These books give us the most creepy and terrifying serial killer this side of Hannibal Lecter, and I am absolutely chuffed to see the grittiness of this thriller series in young adult lit!

4. Emma Lewis is a badass, incredibly complex character that you root for with every single page you turn. Her badassery lies not in brute strength or actual abilities to kick butt, but in her strength of character, her tenacity, her intelligence, her unwillingness to be pushed around, and her feminist sensibilities (back when more mainstream feminism was still fairly new). She has *been through some shit* and has come out the other side fierce and strong, while also still dealing with the effects of her captivity. I love the quote from Adrienne Rich that she cites as her favorite: “Her wounds came from the same source as her power.”

5. Finally, more on the feminism: again, we’re dealing with very early ‘80s, so mainstream feminism was in its nascent stage, but Marney exposes the sexism inherent in not just police culture but also the culture at large at the time -- and which unfortunately still exists today. At one point Kristen says, “People only listen when women expose their pain, I suppose.” Emma later remarks, “Every woman lives in a constant state of battle-readiness.” Later, when Emma shoos away a creep in a bar by referring to her FBI partner, Travis, as her boyfriend, she notes “the irony that she has to claim connection with one man to avoid another.” I doubt I’m alone in saying each of these is all too familiar even now, 40 years after the setting of this book.

I’m not sure I can adequately convey how darn much I love this series, but I hope this list is a start! If you are *at all* a mystery/thriller lover, PICK THESE UP! Even if you don’t normally read YA, I am confident you’ll love these. And DM me with thoughts once you’re done!

RATING: 5 stars!

**Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher for purposes of this blog tour. I also bought myself the audiobook to alternate between audio and physical.

[mbti-notes]

Can I ask what ideas behavioral psychology & behavioral science overlap? I'm learning behavioral science (as a compulsory subject) in my uni next week as a med rookie. I had the chance to prepare for the subject tks to my seniors & found it interesting. I know behavioral science doesn't have much overlap with MBTI, but can I also ask resources for further research in behavioral science & psychology & beginner 101 books for them? Thank you so much for reading;)

It's unclear to me what you're asking for. Since you're a beginner, it's important to begin by clarifying your terms in order to ensure you're using them correctly. I've heard some people use "behavioral sciences" synonymously with "social sciences" but I don't consider them the same, based on my educational background. You could conceivably call me a social science nerd but I wouldn't associate myself with behavioral science in that way.

"Behavioral science" refers to the experimental study of human behavior specifically (very different than psychology). It is an interdisciplinary field of study, which means that it draws ideas from a wide variety of subjects as long as they relate to human action in some way, including: anthropology, biology, business, demography, economics, geography, law, neuroscience, political science, public health, psychology, psychiatry. From this list, you can see that, if you don't specify exactly which aspects of behavioral science appeal to you, it's impossible for me to narrow down the hundreds of books that may be relevant.

The concept of behavioral science has its roots in behaviorism, aka behavioral psychology. It was an early branch of psychology made popular by well-known figures like Ivan Pavlov, John Watson, and B.F. Skinner. They generally espoused the idea that there was little need to study the inner workings of the human mind. Behavior was all that mattered, and behavior could be understood mainly as an observable interaction between an organism's biology and its environment. This allowed for a purely scientific approach and the use of laboratory experimentation to discover the most efficient ways to change human behavior.

Behaviorism operated in direct contrast to another early branch of psychology known as psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychology, founded by Sigmund Freud and includes Jungian psychology. The main focus of this branch is to make sense of the inner life of human beings. Thus, as a blog about Jungian ideas, what I talk about here is quite removed from behavioral science. Not only is there little to no overlap, in some ways the two can even be considered as the antithesis of each other. While both branches have evolved and are far less antagonistic than they were in early days, there are still some aspects of behavioral science and its aims that I'm not onboard with.

I suggest you talk to your instructor(s), figure out what sources they are using and ask them for additional sources according to your interests in behavioral science and behavioral psychology. It is part of their job to field questions like this. As for psychology in general, I have already suggested introductory books on the resources page. Or go to your university bookstore and have a look at the first-year psychology textbooks.

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The Japanese tit also made news in 2016, when researcher Toshitaka Suzuki – now at the University of Tokyo – and colleagues reported evidence of compositional syntax in its calls. This ability to combine units of communication into phrases was the first example found in any wild animal species. The complexity of the birds' vocal communications inspired the researchers to study other ways they might communicate, says Suzuki, who authored the new study along with University of Tokyo colleague Norimasa Sugita. "For over 17 years, I have been engaged in the study of these fascinating birds," Suzuki says. "They not only use specific calls to convey particular meanings, but also combine different calls into phrases using syntactic rules.

Birds are famous for communicating vocally, but many have other options, too. Some communicate by dancing, for example, or by showing off their feathers. And according to a new study, at least one bird species does something more often associated with humans and great apes: symbolic gesturing. A songbird called the Japanese tit (Parus minor) uses fluttering wing movements to signal "after you," the study's authors report, similar to the way humans extend one open hand to let another person go first.

Continue Reading.

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