Over adaptationPassive behavior

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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Passive behaviors• When I discount, I do so by making

statement to myself in my own

head.

• Thus a discount itself is not

observable.

• Since you can’t thought read, you

have no way of knowing I am

discounting unless I speak or act in

some way which indicates the

presence of the discount.

Passive behaviors• There are four types of behavior

which always indicate that the

person concerned is

discounting. They are

• Doing nothing.

• Over adaptation.

• Agitation.

• Incapacitation or violence.

Over adaptation• Amy comes into the house after a

hard day’s work. Her husband Brian is sitting reading a newspaper.

• Looking beyond him into the kitchen, Amy sees a huge pile of unwashed dishes besides the sink.

• “Hi”, says Brian, “Hope you’ve had a good day. Just about time for tea, isn’t it?”.

• Taking her coat off, Amy goes straight through to the kitchen. She washes the pile of dishes and gets down to making tea.

Over adaptation• Neither Brian nor Amy noticed

that he has not asked here to

wash the dishes and make tea.

• Nor has she asked him if he wants

her to.

• Still less has she paused to think

whether she herself wants to

wash the dishes or whether it

might be more appropriate if

Brian Washed them.

Over adaptation• Amy’s passive behavior is over

adaptation. • When someone overadapts, she is

complying with what she believes in Child are the wishes of others.

• She does so without checking with them what their wishes are in reality, and without any reference to what her own wishes are.

• The person in overadapation, unlike the person in doing nothing, experiences herself as thinking during the passive behavior.

• He thinking actually proceeds from a contamination

Over adaptation• Someone is overadaptation will

often be experienced by others as helpful, adaptable or accommodating.

• Thus overadaptation is frequently stroked by those to whom the person relates.

• Because of this social acceptability and because the person appears to be thinking, overadaptation is the most difficult to detect of the four passive behavior.

• The person in overadaptation is discounting her ability to act on her own options. Instead, she follows options she believes others want.

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