grooming

(verb)

Grooming occurs when friends or neighbors build relationships of trust with elders in order to gain control of their finances.

Related Terms

Examples of grooming in the following topics:

  • Elder Abuse

    • Serious offenses can be committed by abusive groomers through grooming an older person by befriending him or her in order to build trusting relationships that can then be exploited.
    • Older people living with no adult children nearby are particularly vulnerable to grooming by neighbors and friends who might seek to gain control of their estates.

  • Executive Orders

    • Air Force's facility in the vicinity of Groom Lake, Nevada (commonly called Area 51) from environmental disclosure laws, in response to subpoenas from a lawsuit brought by Area 51 workers alleging illegal hazardous waste disposal which resulted in injury and death.
    • Air Force's facility in the vicinity of Groom Lake, Nevada (commonly called Area 51) from environmental disclosure laws, in response to subpoenas from a lawsuit brought by Area 51 workers alleging illegal hazardous waste disposal which resulted in injury and death.

  • The Origins of Culture

    • Language and culture then both emerged as a means of using symbols to construct social identity and maintain coherence within a social group too large to rely exclusively on pre-human ways of building community (for example, grooming).

  • Anticipatory Socialization and Resocialization

    • Practices commonly associated with anticipatory socialization include grooming, play-acting, training, and rehearsing.

  • Family

    • In northern Ghana, for example, payment of bridewealth, which is an amount of money, wealth, or property paid to the bride's parents by the groom's family, signifies a woman's requirement to bear children, and women using birth control face substantial threats of physical abuse and reprisals.

  • Comparative Psychology

    • The field examines such things as individual behavior, interaction with the environment, reproduction, grooming and hygiene, how different life forms learn, forms of motivation, and mental capacities.

  • Examples

    • Joon believes that 50% of first-time brides in the United States are younger than their grooms.
    • Joon samples 100 first-time brides and 53 reply that they are younger than their grooms.
    • Random variable: P' = the percent of of first-time brides who are younger than their grooms.

  • Roosevelt's Progressivism

    • Roosevelt successfully groomed his close friend, William Howard Taft, to succeed him in the presidency.

  • Animal Communication and Living in Groups

    • Activities such as grooming, touching the shoulder or root of the tail, embracing, lip contact, and greeting ceremonies have all been observed in the Indian langur, an Old World monkey.

  • Altruism and Populations

    • After a certain amount of time, the roles are reversed and the first monkey now grooms the second monkey.