Social Behavior
Roles: individual, group, norm, status, challenger, ally
How organisms (including humans) interact in groups. Covers cooperation, competition, hierarchy, signaling, and norm enforcement. A rich source domain because social dynamics are universally experienced and deeply felt — everyone knows what it’s like to be judged, excluded, or elevated by a group.
As Source Frame (9)
- Beliefs Are Fashions → mental-experience
- Cargo Cult Programming → software-programs
- Drinking the Kool-Aid → collaborative-work
- Fear-Driven Development → collaborative-work
- Ideas Are Fashions → intellectual-inquiry
- Monkey-Patching → software-programs
- Pattern Language as Shared Vocabulary → collaborative-work
- Ralph Wiggum Loop → artificial-intelligence
- TCP Handshake → computing
Applied To This Frame (39)
- mythology → Aegis
- mythology → Cassandra
- food-and-cooking → Companion
- mythology → Cornucopia
- seafaring → Cut and Run
- mythology → Dark Forest
- mythology → Elysium
- mythology → Excalibur
- seafaring → Give Wide Berth
- mythology → Gordian Knot
- seafaring → Groundswell
- embodied-experience → Having Control Is Up; Being Subject To Control Is Down
- embodied-experience → Help Is Support
- seafaring → High and Dry
- science-fiction → Hive Mind Is Collective Intelligence
- music → Interpersonal Harmony Is Musical Harmony
- mythology → Karma
- seafaring → Keelhauled
- seafaring → Loose Cannon
- science-fiction → Metaverse Is Shared Virtual World
- mythology → Narcissism
- mythology → Nemesis
- seafaring → Over a Barrel
- mythology → Pandemonium
- mythology → Pandora's Box
- manufacturing → People Are Machines
- science-fiction → Pod People Are Conformist Replacement
- governance → Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law
- social-roles → Relationship Is Kinship
- seafaring → Showing True Colors
- embodied-experience → Significant Is Big
- Silence Gives Consent
- economics → Social Accounting
- war → Social Conflict Is War
- agriculture → Sow Wild Oats
- science-fiction → The Borg Is Assimilation
- mythology → Valhalla
- embodied-experience → Virtue Is Up; Depravity Is Down
- mythology → Hubris