Topics: Economics and Personal Finances, Socioeconomic Class. 1  Richard Fry is a senior researcher focusing on economics and education at Pew Research Center. 2  Rakesh Kochhar is an associate director of research at Pew Research Center.
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (Commonwealth English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment.
Terms to describe pleasant behavior include affable, friendly, outgoing and amiable. Cooperative behaviors include helpful and responsive. An individual who exhibits dependent behaviors could be described as docile, eager to please or accommodating. Other positive-behavior terms include tactful, candid and courteous.