Sentences with phrase «about human perception»

Eliasson is fundamentally concerned with creating art that asks questions about our human perception of reality; his works draw associations to land art and architecture, the romanticism of nature and natural science.

But here again we are talking about human perception of God, rather than God.

Not exact matches

All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

Yes — and I think there is something in our human nature that is about survival that while a good and necessary thing to have can when mixed with none of us being perfect lead us to perceptions and magical thinking which may or may not be in touch with reality.

That faith, plus other perceptions about our personal lives and the course of human history, provided a dimension to our stories that I call their setting: the world the story sets in which story's plot can credibly unfold and its character develop.

Although many of those concerned for environmental protection are thinking about the natural world simply as it relates to human beings, the leaders of the environmental movement have been moved to perception and action by deeper changes.

about our powerlessness to penetrate in this sense beyond the primitive vision shared by the earliest human minds; that is to say, the impossibility of our advancing a step towards the direct or indirect perception of all that is hidden behind the veil of tangible experience!

The perception that Christians don't care about pollution, species extinction, and the social and human health consequences of land degradation can ultimately drive people away from Christ.

Now we are also asking: What does our experience of human sexuality say about our perceptions of faith — our experience of God, our interpretations of Scripture and tradition, our ways of living out the gospel?

Even as he's evoking insect life in terms that recall the domesticity of The Wind in the Willows, he wants to write about the natural world as if he had access to it independently of our perception of it in human terms» as if he were capable of seeing the Insect - in - Itself instead of the insect as seen by a man.

If the norm of the new humanity in Jesus Christ obliges us to question the Apostle's opinions about the proper status of women and the institution of human slavery, so also that norm obliges us to scrutinize each of his moral judgments regarding its Christian faithfulness for our time — including his perception of homosexuality.

In all my years studying human perception it was all about the eyes and ears, with touch coming in a distant third.

Being a «beauty queen» is nothing to brag about because «beauty» is a matter of perception (as beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, and is a gift given by Nature that no mortal human being has any hand in fashioning or overturning.

These had led not only to serious problems - such as the Bryant murder - but to a mistaken perception about what the Human Rights Act was supposed to do.

The second wave took 1,969 of these respondents and asked them about their perception of the corporate reputation of KLM, the perceived level of «human voice» of KLM on their social media channels, and the level of exposure of respondents to the social media activities of KLM.

Research has shown the significance of social relationships in influencing adult human behavior and health; however, little is known about how children's perception of their social networks correlates with stress and how it may influence development.

How do you go about exploring monkey awareness of human perception?

But new research suggests that ravens — birds singled out by many cultures as a symbol of intelligence and wisdom — share at least some of the human ability to think abstractly about other minds, adapting their behavior by attributing their own perceptions to others.

Moreover, we found that when respondents» perception of the level of scientific agreement increased, this led to significant changes in other key beliefs about the issue, such as the belief that climate change is happening, human - caused and a worrisome problem.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

As many as 65 percent of people in some countries haven't even heard of climate change, and perceptions of risk often depend on local temperatures as much as beliefs about humans» role in the changing environment, a new study finds.

This theory from social science provides general approaches, not framed mathematically, to account for several distinct aspects of human behavior including attitudes towards impacts of behaviors, perception of social norms, and perceptions about the capability for behaviors to be effective and to have impact on controlling a system.

Perceptions of where the scientific community stands on climate change have fluctuated from a low of 44 % in 2010 who said that scientists agree about human activity as the main cause of warming temperatures to a high of 57 % saying this today.19

Each of us experiences the world uniquely (meaning, your perception of reality is fundamentally different from everyone else's) because every human possesses a different combination of physical brain function, memories, beliefs, and attitudes about him - or herself, others, and the world.

A psychological thriller which explores the human brain's perception mechanisms and the diffuse frontiers between belief and science, RED LIGHTS starts out from the experiences of two rationalist scientists who dissect phenomena from the metapsychic world, and the clash of forces with a world famous psychic they bring about.

Just as there is consensus about the human role in climate change, the perception that our species is now piloting the planet has led scientists to declare a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene or the Humanhuman role in climate change, the perception that our species is now piloting the planet has led scientists to declare a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene or the HumanHuman Age.

The project is meant to both «expose the antifemale bias of the art world» and «uncover the complex workings of human perception and how unconscious ideas about gender, race and celebrity influence a viewer's understanding of a given work of art.»

It's somewhat of a controversial topic in veterinary medicine due to the perceptions people have about the medicinal aspects of cannabis for humans, as many folks still harbor the antiquated perspectives of Reefer Madness and the legality issues of marijuana use in the U.S.

Human perception about animals is elevated through an organization like IDA and they are recognized as individuals having needs, feelings and their own interests.

Deriving its title from a book by David Foster Wallace, the show comprises an eponymous new video work exploring human perception in the cold void of outer space, structured around interviews the artist conducted with NASA astronaut David Wolf about his experiences in the immediate cosmos.

UK cinema première of artist Dryden Goodwin's feature - length work: a profound essay about perception, identity and the creation of meaning, featuring the UK's leading eye surgeon, planetary geologist and human rights solicitor.

His work focuses on perception, spatial relationships, human psychology, and questions about life and death.

Someone would oppose this claim, but it's true — art is about aesthetical perception, and it's impossible that all human beings have the same taste.

By not trying to stretch themselves beyond their own, consistent taste, they're actually exposing more about the partial, confining nature of human desire and perception than they would otherwise.

Other work includes Walking Distance, where participants walk and talk about walking and talking, and the power of one human body; Incredible Witness, where differences in sensory perception lead to empathic understanding; and The Year of Dance, an anthropology of the NYC dance world.

Believing human perception to be his true medium, he has said, «My art is about your seeing.»

For decades he has created abstract paintings about color and its affects on human mood and visual perception.

The science of human behavior, particularly the psychology of risk perception, robustly shows that we use two systems to make judgments about risk; reason and affect, facts and feelings.

I was at a dinner a couple weeks back at which several journalists spoke on just this issue, and Shankar Vedantam and Chris Mooney made a good case for what I have also suggested (including in my reply to you on April 6); What's really irrational is for smart people, in support of the myth of perfect rationality and frustrated by the public's «ignorance» about risk, to ignore the mountains of evidence from neuroscience and social sciences about how human perception and decision - making actually works, about risk or anything else.

A variety of denier sources attacked these papers, clouding the public perception about the degree to which climate scientists are sure humans are causing climate change.

Since people's beliefs about evolution are influenced by their perceptions of scientific consensus, the total role of science knowledge in shaping a person's opinion likely operates indirectly through beliefs about scientific consensus as well as directly through beliefs about whether humans have evolved over time.

In this paper we tested four hypotheses: (1) perceived conflict about global warming will be negatively associated — and (2) climate expertise, (3) liberal political ideology, and (4) perceived scientific consensus will be positively associated — with (a) higher personal certainty that global warming is happening, (b) viewing the global warming observed over the past 150 years as mostly human - caused, and (c) perception of global warming as harmful.

Normally when I talk about the «Consensus Gap», the discrepancy between the 97 % consensus and the public perception of consensus, I use a histogram of the public response to the question «how many climate scientists agree that humans are causing global warming?»

To become a Family and Consumer Science teacher at your school and to shape my students perception about life, friends, relationships, human behavior, food, sexual practice in a way that can be helpful further on in their life.

Dates can be tricky when it comes to your resume and it's important to think about the perception of your application as it winds its way through the company's applicant tracking system and human resources department.

Sydney, Australia About Blog The Sydney Jewish Museum challenges perceptions of democracy, morality, social justice and human rights and places the Holocaust in an historical and contemporary context.