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Where well developed, it results in the maintenance of a social group, often very large. Such groups have received specialized names in popular terminology, such as schools of fishes, flocks of birds, herds of hoofed mammals, packs of wolves and some other carnivores, troops of primates, and crowds of people. Little attention has been paid to this major motivational system in humans except in connection with social facilitation. Generalizing from other animals 26 Infants may be attached to their mothers or other caretakers and, in that sense, care about them, but they can hardly be expected to show authentic altruism or commitment.
They experience a sudden spurt in height, broadening of the shoulders, increase in the size of their genitals, development of axillary and pubic hair, first growth of beard, and deepening of the voice. Because of the rapid and visible physical changes taking place in them, early adolescents go through periods of feeling uncomfortable with their bodies. Middle adolescence corresponds roughly to the high school years, after the major growth changes have occurred but before any major focus on consolidating personal identity.
Melvin Seeman to humans, one would predict that strong social attachment must result in allelomimetic behavior for that contiguity to be maintained. Thus, motivation associated with allelomimetic behavior has the properties of a general social drive. Interference with this drive, as in cases of separation induced by death or migration, frequently results in severe depressive symptoms. John Paul Scott Allport, Gordon W. (1897-1967) Allee, Warder Clyde (1885-1955) Allee was a pioneer in ecological and ethological research.
