Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: What is behavior? No seriously, what is it? Studying  behavior lies at the heart of many disciplines. Nevertheless, academics rarely provide an explicit definition of what  behavior actually is. What range of definitions do people use, and how does that vary across disciplines? To answer these questions we have developed a survey to probe what constitutes  behavior. We find that academics adopt different definitions of behavior according to their academic discipline, animal model that they work with, and level of academic seniority. Using hierarchical clustering, we identify at least six distinct types of  behavior which are used in seven distinct operational archetypes of  behavior. Individual respondents have clear consistent definitions of behavior, but these definitions are not consistent across the population. Our study is a call for academics to clarify what they mean by  behavior wherever they study it, with the hope that this will foster interdisciplinary studies that will improve our understanding of behavioral phenomena.
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The categories of this paper are: molecular
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The categories of this paper are: evolutionary
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The categories of this paper are: immunology
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The categories of this paper are: pathology
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The categories of this paper are: biochemistry
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The categories of this paper are: synthetic
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The categories of this paper are: education
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The categories of this paper are: biology
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The categories of this paper are: neuroscience
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The categories of this paper are: paleontology
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The categories of this paper are: communication
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The categories of this paper are: toxicology
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The categories of this paper are: microbiology
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The categories of this paper are: plant
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The categories of this paper are: biophysics
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The categories of this paper are: epidemiology