Behavioural Signatures

Canonical definition

Behavioural Signatures are distinctive, observable patterns in an Individual's behaviour over time, in when they start, persist, switch, stop, or decline to begin, that allow informed inference about the underlying mix of Appetites (A), Intrinsic Motivation (I), and Mimetic Desire (M). The Signatures are read over Behavioural Episodes rather than over executed actions alone, because each of them turns on a comparison between what was done and what was not: pursuit that terminates on repair, pursuit that continues unwitnessed, an Object kept unused once its novelty is spent. An interval in which no action occurred is therefore evidence, and not an absence of evidence.