demeanor
Let an agent explain demeanour as outward manner and conduct, relay how it is perceived and assessed from psychological, legal and social sources, describe related senses of behaviour and deportment, and distinguish demeanour from personality, character and etiquette.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What demeanour is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is demeanour, and how does it differ from personality, character and etiquette? definition
- Is the question about demeanour in general, a professional context or a stylistic description? boundary
Senses
Related senses.
Senses
Senses.
- How do behaviour, conduct, deportment and bearing relate, and what does swashbuckling describe? definition
- Which entry fits the specific sense? action
Perceive Perception.
Psychology
Psychology.
Psychology
Psychology.
- How do people read demeanour through expression, posture and voice, and how accurate are such judgements, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Culture
Culture.
Culture
Culture.
- How do cultures differ in expected demeanour and in reading it? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Settings Settings.
Professional
Professional demeanour.
Professional
Professional.
- What demeanour do professional codes expect in medicine, law and service? provenance
- Which entry fits professional conduct? action
Court
Courtroom demeanour.
Court
Court.
- How is witness demeanour used in assessing credibility, and why is it debated, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context Language and history.
Language
Language.
Language
Language.
- How is demeanour described in English and other languages, and where does the word come from? provenance
- Which entry fits etymology? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How have ideals of deportment changed from courtesy books to modern manners? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of manners? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- noun.attribute
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.QLT
- Facets: substance
- abstract
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- demeanour, behavior, behaviour, conduct, deportment, swashbuckling, propriety, properness, correctitude, decorum, decorousness, appropriateness
What it is Filled
The way a person behaves toward other people, in the WordNet sense of behavioural attributes including outward manner, bearing and conduct, covering senses of behaviour, deportment and conduct in general and stylistic descriptions such as a swashbuckling manner; demeanour is assessed in everyday social judgement, in professional settings such as courts and interviews, and in psychology as observable expressive behaviour.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain demeanour as outward manner and conduct, relay how it is perceived and assessed from psychological, legal and social sources, describe related senses of behaviour and deportment, and distinguish demeanour from personality, character and etiquette.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Observable
- Directed toward others
- Assessed socially
- Style descriptions
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Infer a person's guilt, honesty or character from their demeanour.
- Use automated analysis of faces or behaviour to judge demeanour without consent.
- Treat one culture's norms of manner as the standard for all.
- Mock a person's manner, including one shaped by disability or neurodivergence.
Only with a human decision
- Using a demeanour assessment in any decision about a person.
May
- Describe a person's observable manner in neutral terms when asked to.
- Explain how demeanour is read in courts, interviews and everyday life, and the limits of such reading.
Moral aspects Filled
- Judging people by demeanour has led to wrong verdicts and unfair hiring.
- Manners differ by culture and disability, so readings carry bias.
Who is affected
- People being judged
- Neurodivergent and disabled people
- People from other cultures
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: each person holds their own manner.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-04623416-n - registry parent class
related
- behavioural attribute - in general terms
- personality - outwardly
- etiquette - in social codes
- courtroom - as witness demeanour
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.demeanor
- Open English WordNet: oewn-04904939-n
- WordNet: oewn-04623416-n the way a person behaves toward other people
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Outward manner toward others
- Behaviour, conduct, deportment, bearing, swashbuckling manner
- Personality is the underlying disposition; character is moral evaluation; etiquette is the code of manners
- Not a visible object as a concept; observable manner and bearing.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept
- relay perception and assessment
- describe related senses
- distinguish related concepts
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Judging character from demeanour
- Cultural bias in reading demeanour
- Registry alias swashbuckling is a stylistic descriptor
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Professional conduct codes
- Evidence rules on witness demeanour, which are debated
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a behavioural attribute.
- general behaviour and conduct
- deportment and bearing
- professional demeanour in courts, medicine and service
- expressive styles such as swashbuckling, calm or brusque demeanour
- demeanour as courtroom evidence
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-04904939-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: demeanor - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should behaviour and deportment be separate primary entries?
- How should psychological and legal sources be linked?
- How should stylistic descriptors be recorded?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-demeanor/spec.json