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Sarah Palin Behavioral Syndrome 

When someone has characteristics of playing the victim, not accepting blame, throwing others under the bus if they do not agree with or cross them, that rules are for others, but not for them; and using others, including family, as tools. This syndrome may or may not include messed up family relationships, pathological lying, getting in over one's head because of poor qualifications, quitting things, and having messed-up financial or business dealings.
The defense lawyer made excuses for his own behavior, whined about the rules, and then the next day falsely accused the prosecution lawyer of the same thing. That made some court watchers comment that the defense lawyer was suffering from "Sarah Palin Behavioral Syndrome".
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sexual behaviorist

A voyeur in denial, someone who likes to watch others doing something sexual or showing any emotion toward others.
if you like watching people make out your either a voyeur or a sexual behaviorist

Behavioral Surplus

The phrase “behavioral surplus” is central to the subject of Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.” The author is a professor emerita at the Harvard Business School. Here is Zuboff’s description of the term in the book’s Introduction:

“Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. Although some of these data are applied to product or service improvement, the rest are declared as proprietary ‘behavioral surplus,’ fed into advanced manufacturing processes known as ‘machine intelligence,’ and fabricated into ‘prediction products’ that anticipate what you will do now, sooner and later. Finally, these prediction products are traded in a new kind of marketplace for behavioral predictions that I call ‘behavioral futures markets.’” (Terms highlighted with single quote marks are italicized in the original.)

Because of the way the term is discussed in the book it’s likely it originated early this century in the bowels of Google as the company searched for a way to reliably monetize their search engine. They found one.
“The shift of economies of scope defines a new set of aims: behavioral surplus must be vast, but it must also be varied.” ibid., p 199

Behavioral Trinity 

The 3 main pillars of the Human Behavior Model. They consist of a humans Internal Representation, External Physiological Representation, and Linguistic Representation and Interpretation.
Notice this clients Behavioral Trinity, their body language, words and focus tell me that they are incongruent and need to be supported.
Behavioral Trinity by justdug February 5, 2012

behavioralist 

When an individual continuously cannot decide how they want to act or behave at all times, or at certain times and events, being unsure, or lost on how to actually act.
"Did you hear that Danyy's girlfriend broke up with him and doesn't know why?" says Jane. "Yeah, she's such a behavioralist," says Mark.
behavioralist by FLSTUDIO2021 December 25, 2022

Behavioural Approach 

The approach a person takes to dealing with emotions and their coresponding actions.
Behavioural Approach examples:

Passive: A lack of interpersonal communication as a method of dealing with emotion(s).
Passive Assertive: A subtle, but firm communication of emotion(s).
Assertive: A straight-forward communication of emotion(s).
Assertive Aggressive: A striaght-forward, but assulting communication of emotion(s).
Aggressive: A purely assulting communication of emotion(s).
Passive Aggressive: A subtle, but assulting communication of emotion(s).
Behavioural Approach by Srž Tanjur September 18, 2008

behavioral specialist 

A member of your treatment team that has the job dedicated to giving you exposures that make you anxious. Sometimes referred to as a BS. They also give you a ban book to track behaviors but most patients just fill in random numbers.
My behavioral specialist gave me a new exposure but it causes my anxiety to get to a 6 out of 7.
behavioral specialist by Anxiously September 7, 2019