So what is their mental state, that causes them to behave in this very unfeline-like way?

It had been the fetters and the branding iron to cause him to behave so poorly.

There must be social pressures being applied to individuals that are causing them to behave this way.

Behavioural learning assumes that people's environment (surroundings) cause people to behave in certain ways.

She can cause Darkforce to behave like either matter or energy.

They would put things like tacks under the horse's collar to cause it to behave irrationally.

Those who tend to retaliate need to work on ways of coping with the way their immediate strong feelings cause them to behave.

But will this actually make a difference in the way people prepare, or cause people to behave differently during the storm?

It was something, what must go through men's minds where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.

But the moral certainty that caused Reagan to behave in this way wasn't a tribute to his thickness.