Sentences with phrase «accepted ideas about»

Psychologist MHPs tend to be trained to recognize and be rather publicly self - conscious [96] about acknowledging their own biases, but unfortunately many times this only results in absurd overcorrecting to the point at which they are in fact unable to exert common sense to make decisions or judgments that comport with generally accepted ideas about what is normal or healthy, or even what's realistically workable for the everyday lives of the individuals in question (except, of course, if those ideas have been placed into the popular discourse by the trade associations themselves, or happen to serve the MHP's own agenda).

Institutional structures and processes that conform to the community's generally accepted ideas about how persons should interact and relate to each other, about the appropriate exercise of power, about who should be entitled to speak or act for whom, about proper decision - making processes, and so forth, are likely to command significantly greater support within the community than those that depart from such standards or ideas, or that challenge them directly.18

Ancient sediments that once resided on a lake bed and the ocean floor show sulfur isotope ratios unlike those found in other samples from the same time, calling into question accepted ideas about when the Earth's atmosphere began to contain oxygen, according to researchers from the U.S., Canada and Japan.

In 2012, a controversial study challenged previously accepted ideas about the mechanisms through which climate change will affect our weather: Warmer temperatures will result in more heat waves, hotter summers will bring worse droughts, the warmer atmosphere will hold more water, resulting in heavier precipitation and flooding.

The results challenge accepted ideas about how stem cells age and may eventually lead to new ways to prevent graying and treat the more serious conditions caused by genotoxic stress, such as cancer.

The main difficulty of sleep inversion treatment is that the parents, particularly mothers and grandmothers, sometimes have to do actions that fundamentally contradict the generally accepted ideas about how to love children.

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Say what you will about Facebook and MySpace; those who frequent them accept communal action — including communal idea generation — as the norm.

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The market also seems to accept the idea that such operations are exclusively for liquidity management purposes, and contain no messages about monetary policy.

I don't accept anybody else's subjective experiences because I have some idea about how easily the human brain can fool itself into experiencing things that aren't real.

Finally, I admit that, even if I accept the Lawlerian idea that Locke partially corrects Aristotle, by stealing certain Christian insights about the limits of the polis (see chapter 7 of Modern and American Dignity especially), I still hold that Aristotle is better than Locke.

I see the possibility of several ways of talking about truth: perceived truth / believed truth (I believe x) vs accepted truth (we all accept that x is true) vs literal truth (x is actually true) vs hypothtical truth / relative truth (for the purpose of y, x is true; or, assuming y, x is true) vs semantic truth (it is true that the word «x» refers to the idea «y»).

Preaching is more than a process of transmitting ideas about Christian creed, cult, and conduct with the expectation that these ideas will be understood, accepted, and translated into action.

Anybody has any ideas about which publisher might accept my book?

You'll find a wealth of information and newer, more enlightened ideas about treating substance abuse problems than you can imagine — just because they're not as widely known and universally accepted as AA doesn't mean they don't contain better, more effective ideas.

The idea of writing a story about a man who had no faith and then suddenly was faced with accepting something more powerful than myself, followed by miracle after miracle — should certainly help someone else.

are you not just blindly accepting dogma that's been honed over centuries as truth when, in fact, it's just people's ideas about things they don't understand?

Unfortunately, some adults are restricted by childhood ideas and feelings about religion — beliefs they can no longer accept as adults.

The second you accept the fact that others feel about YOUR god - idea the way you feel about Allah / Zeus / Poseidon / etc, then the efficacy of Pascal's Wager goes out the window, because there are SO MANY god - ideas to try to believe, and many of them contradict one another... short of George Orwell's «1984» concept of «DoubleThink».

To embrace the general idea of genocidal conspiracy obviously makes it easier to accept the particular paranoias spread by demagogues like Farrakhan about drugs or AIDS.

I do not intend by my remarks about space - time to imply that, if Peirce had known relativity physics, he would have given up his notion of individual identity as consisting in a continuity of reactions and accepted the idea of a definite single event as intelligible by itself.

If challenging my fellow Christ - followers to think more critically about these issues makes me a stumbling block in the path of bad ideas, then I accept that role.

Atheism readily accepts the idea that there are simply things that are currently unknown about the universe.

In order to prevent misunderstandings about the origin of ideas, we do not accept or record suggestions for new products, flavors, or promotions from outside the company.

While I'm not wild about the idea of Morris as a candidate, I can at least accept the idea that if 75 percent of the electorate saw something that I didn't, maybe there's something I'm missing.

The Lansinoh research found that 48 % of participants felt most uncomfortable seeing a mum feeding in a restaurant and people were most accepting of breastfeeding when it was done on a beach or park — no idea why people think breastfeeding is most acceptable when done outdoors, what is that all about?

I had no idea that discussing the ethical implications involved in accepting handouts from Nestle was an attack... and was amused to see them saying that people should «just ask Nestle for all the answers,» as though people hadn't been trying to communicate with Nestle about corporate wrongdoing for over 30 years.

or whatever their reaction may be, based on perceived ideas about breasts, they will soon get over it and accept breast feeding as something it really is, a NORMAL way to feed and nourish a baby.

I don't accept that there is a zero - sum choice between our own discussions and public facing discussions, but I think the greater challenge (eg in our recent research) is about value - based public advocacy which connects to and translates political ideas, like equality.

What I am criticising, and will continue to criticise, is the escalating inability of the middle - class left to talk to or about anyone who is NOT middle class and middle - aged as if they are human beings, to really listen to their needs and thoughts and strategies and accept that they too have political ideas which are just as important as yours.

But it does make me slightly nervous — depending on how well it works, googlebombing could become an accepted and normal tactic for influencing the information that's presented about friends and enemies alike, which goes against the whole idea behind Google and other search engines (that useful and relevant information will naturally rise to the top).

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

Even if we accepted the idea of education being first and foremost about economic advantage, then we should ensure that our universities are preparing students to be future citizens at least as effectively as those of our «competitors».

But this would not have been enough for those bent on peddling some twisted — and commonly accepted — ideas about class, race and nationality.

NPP insiders, both in Parliament and the party, say there is a firm degree of certainty that has been established around the idea of Prof. Oquaye as the country's next Speaker and that he is upbeat about accepting the role.

Despite all the tough talk at the Capitol about refusing to accept any new taxes or fees while the budget negotiations have dragged on, it turns out that the idea of raising taxes to help close the $ 9.2 billion budget deficit has been on the table for some time now.

However, if Supervisor Gromack is really serious about introducing political reform to Clarkstown then we would encourage him to accept another Republican idea, that of the Two - hat Rule which County Executive Day has been trying recently to get the County Legislature to accept and which that body has so far declined to do.

I suggest that labour - uncut, goes off, thinks up a few sensible policies, that are relevant to a government of 2020, maybe has a few ideas on the EU referendum, and accepts that the Corbyn fans of Students who read a article about how, capitalism is bad, because there was enough money for everyone in the 80's, and the Tories only got in because people who voted for them were dumb and read the Daily mail, because you're not going to convince anyone that labour Will be destroyed in 2020 ′ because the Tories may implode over infighting like they did with Westland or ousting Thatcher, but win in 87 ′ and 92 ′ anyway

To understand why there is a trend amongst conservative white males, the Gallup data was cross-examined with research about the «white male effect» — the idea that white males were either more accepting of risk or less risk averse than the rest of the public.

In 2009 he said, when talking about climate change, that the «science is highly contentious, to say the least» and «the climate change argument is absolute crap», but did accept that precautionary action against it was a good idea.

Shegelski: Yeah, pretty much most things about quantum mechanics are in [opposition to] our regular everyday experiences, and so one of the first thing students have to do in learning quantum mechanics is they have to give up the regular everyday ideas that we have and accept a new way of looking at things.

The proposal was more widely accepted than a very similar, earlier idea from the journalist Andrew Revkin (he wrote about the «Anthrocene» in 1992), but at the time it still generated considerable controversy.

But taken as a whole I accept the idea of anthropogenic global warming and that we need to do something about relatively soon.

«I think people have become a lot more used to the idea... There's so much on TV about it, so much in women's magazines, in particular, it's something that's accepted now.»

Any ideas about how we get more doctors, dietitians and other who are in the «system» (by which I mean they accept health insurance) on board?

Now I talk about in my books specifically people struggle with the idea of loving themselves and accepting themselves.

Why do men accept that they will suppress all individuality for the uniform of a suit, but many women cling to the idea that being able to dress feminine and stylishly (and by style I'm talking about true style, not just well tailored) is necessary to hold on to?

«Everything about the collection stems from the idea of flipping brand conventions on their head... overturning commonly accepted rules and traditions of iconography and branding.»

Regardless if we are talking about a male or female, half of the singles of over 40 years old would accept the idea of seeking casual hookups online.

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