Affiliative - Primarily followers of an authority figure or group.

The frequency of other affiliative behaviors can be affected by age.

While interactions with smaller species are sometimes affiliative, they can also be hostile.

The other form of grooming behavior among adult females is affiliative.

These are also made during affiliative interactions, and approaches before grooming.

Individuals who report high levels of affiliative humor are more likely to initiate friendships.

These nonsexual affiliative friendships benefit both the male and female.

A number of outcomes are associated with the use of affiliative humor.

For these mice, shots of the hormone fail to work their affiliative magic.

Grooming is the most common form of affiliative behavior seen by the species specifically between the breeding pair.

It is supposed that similar considerations apply to other types of behavior, which are linked with affiliative motivation.

The affiliative impulse is not a rational thing.

The first were "affiliative managers" who wanted to be liked more than they cared to be effective.

A higher affiliative orientation may increase the female's sensitivity and/or responsivity to social cues.

Close friendships fulfill primarily affiliative rather than attachment needs.

"I believe that social and affiliative behaviors evolved from reproductive behaviors."

In times of uncertainty, affiliative behaviours increase as people seek the opinions of others about how they should be thinking or feeling.

Amount of verbal communication and nonverbal affiliative expressiveness are positively related.

Oxytocin promotes affiliative behavior, including maternal tending and social contact with peers.

These are the nice, affiliative guys.

Individuals who use affiliative humor tend to have higher levels of extraversion and openness to experience as personality characteristics.

Affiliative humor is also associated with increased levels of self-esteem, psychological well-being, emotional stability, and social intimacy.

"I think we have a certain amount of evidence that women are in some sense more affiliative," Dr. Eagly said.

But it is important to note that the context of these affiliative gestures makes a lot of difference," Garcia says.

However, for sterilization to be a viable management tool, the territorial and affiliative behaviors of pack members would need to remain in place.