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 (5)

• Cargo Cult Programming → software-programs
• Fear-Driven Development → collaborative-work
• Ideas Are Fashions → intellectual-inquiry
• Monkey-Patching → software-programs
• Pattern Language as Shared Vocabulary → collaborative-work

As Target Frame (4)

• embodied-experience → Having Control Is Up; Being Subject To Control Is Down
• manufacturing → People Are Machines
• embodied-experience → Significant Is Big
• embodied-experience → Virtue Is Up; Depravity Is Down