grooming

(verb)

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

Related Terms

  • domestic elder abuse
  • institutional elder abuse

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.
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