Sentences with phrase «affect human behavior»

This is a crucial debate to have — and one that must involve people who are real experts on how goals actually affect human behavior.

A newcomer to the NPR scene, this podcast absolutely captured my heart with hosts Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller's fanciful explorations into the unseen forces that affect human behavior.

Limoli explains that it's uncertain how exactly this condition would affect human behavior, but he says it isn't life - threatening.

Knock on wood or not, superstition appears to have played a positive role in evolution and it continues to affect human behavior.

There is no clear evidence that messing with the decay of atoms or the bouncing of electrons can affect human behavior or change the course of history.

When discussing how weather affects human behavior in his book Drunk Tank Pink, New York University marketing and psychology professor Adam Alter said, «Sunshine dulls the mind to risk and thoughtfulness.»

Earlier in the year, creators Brooker and Annabel Jones told Variety that the fourth season would embrace a spectrum of genres, closely zeroing in on how changing technology influences and affects human behavior.

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Although there's overwhelming scientific consensus behind the concept that human behavior is affecting the climate, most of the world and the U.S. in particular is still dealing with climate change deniers.

Psychologists agree on a fundamental human motivation such as the need to belong, which is our emotional need to be accepted by members of a group affecting our behavior.

Bias is a human tendency that affects our behavior and perspective, based on predetermined mental notions and beliefs.

For only God has immediate, constant access to every human, and only God knows the true motives behind each human behavior and how such motives can best be affected.

These include the overall validity of the radical - pair mechanism, whether birds might have evolved to be able to detect minute magnetic changes and have thus become susceptible to human - produced radio noise as a side - effect, or even whether applied electromagnetic fields might be affecting a different behavior — such as motivation — altogether.

- Cognitive Neuroscience The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

Like other social psychologists, Clinton - Sherrod is an expert in human social behavior and on how culture affects behavior in social systems.

Emerging research on how parasites affect host behavior fuels speculation about their influence on human history

The loss of a single gene in mice can affect social behavior and impair their brains» ability to filter out distractions — both characteristics of several neurological diseases in humans.

In a study published last fall, researchers showed that male prairie voles that had been separated from their female partners for four days — a much shorter amount of separation time than researchers had previously found to affect the voles» physiology — exhibited depressionlike behavior and had increased levels of corticosterone, the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.

Xie notes that similar favoritism in science has been found in studies of other cultures, and emphasizes that this latest work «remind [s] us that science is ultimately a social institution affecting, and affected by, human behavior.»

Ever since a pheromone secreted by a female moth that attracts the opposite sex was identified in 1959, scientists have pinned down numerous chemicals that affect behavior in a wide variety of animal species, from insects to mammals to humans.

Returning investigation samples will demonstrate how life in microgravity affects the growth of plant seedlings, changes to the human body, the behavior of semiconductors and detergents, and more.

Study co-author Nigel Bamford, a pediatric neurologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, says that if similar changes occur in humans, it will indicate that an effective way to fight addiction may be to design therapies that target the affected area — the striatum, a forebrain region that controls movement but also has been linked to habit - forming behavior.

Researchers recently identified a gene that regulates nest building — one of only a few genes known to affect parental behavior in mammals, including humans.

Yet now researchers are learning that just as human quirks and temperaments shape our lives and the world around us, the behavior patterns of individual animals affect their role in their ecosystem, their prospects for survival, and, ultimately, their evolution.

«But genes tied to autism tend to affect specific functions, such as the connections between brain regions that are essential to many human - specific behaviors, like speech and language.»

«Not getting restorative sleep may do more than just affect our functioning the next day; it might also influence the rate at which our biological clock ticks,» said Judith Carroll, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, and first author of the sleep study.

Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time.

An overall objective, aside from the desire to assess alternative means to combine human social system models with climate models, is to provide a rational basis to determine whether human risk perception and associated changes in behaviors can significantly affect climate projections.

Genome Biology 2014 15: R25 Obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD), a severe mental disease manifested in time - consuming repetition of behaviors, affects 1 to 3 % of the human population.

The IOM report, supported by the Society for Women's Health Research, found that sex differences important to health and human disease occur at conception and throughout the life span, affecting behavior, perception, and health.

There are a whole range of human behavior factors that can affect emissions.

«There is quite a bit of research showing that human attention affects dog behavior.

This course will survey current understanding of the social behavior and decision making of humans and other animals, from psychological, economic, and ethological perspective; the neurobiology of friendship, social connection, and cooperation; the neurobiology of theory of mind and strategic behavior; disorders affecting social decision making and their biological basis; and applications of social neuroscience to business, including marketing, management and organizational design, leadership and team - building, negotiation, and trading.

Pheromones are considered to be airborne chemical signaling molecules that are released by humans, animals, and plants into the environment and they can affect the physiology and or behavior of other members of the same species.

This is supported by previous studies in both humans and animals, but this is the first study to show that propionate affects brain regions involved with food reward - driven behavior in humans.

It is becoming apparent that these climatic changes are negatively affecting physical and biological systems worldwide, Charles H. Southwick 4 well known ecologist argues that how we as humans affect global ecosystems and how these changes impact our health, behavior, economics and politics.

But as with anything involving human behavior, there are multiple variables affecting the plan.

But when we study human beings, our findings can affect the future behavior of humans.

Autism affects important human behavior such as building relationships and communication among others.

What we see in behaviors is a combination of: genetics, the influence of hormones during pregnancy (stress hormones can affect fetal development), early interactions between mother, puppies, and humans and then the work done by the new owner.

I am a intuitive and mindful dog trainer who appreciates how genetics, physical health, diet, living environment and human energy and actions affects your dogs behavior.

Knowing how animal behavior is affected by social, genetic, or environmental factors can help with understanding the relationship between these animals and humans or other animals.

Articles that explore normal and problem human - animal relationships, normal and problem canine and feline behavior, and the different ways these may affect animal health.

But, we do need to take into account the role that pack crowding affects the behaviors of everyone involved, both the dogs and the humans, and even the other species of pets in the home.

Like humans, cats experience fear, pleasure, hunger, anxiety and many other emotions that may affect their behavior.

One study found that with the introduction of gabapentin, the affected cat displayed a decrease in pain - associated behaviors including aggression, avoiding human interaction, and loss of appetite.

This book is unique in that it focuses on the way human behavior affects the behavior of our four - legged friends.

In the same way that inbreeding among human populations can increase the frequency of normally rare genes that cause diseases, the selective breeding that created the hundreds of modern dog breeds has put purebred dogs at risk for a large number of health problems, affecting both body and behavior.

But like humans, some cats simply have biochemical imbalances that affect behavior.

This series of videos will focus on the importance of the human - animal bond, how we, as pet owners, can be the best owner a pet deserves and how our behavior, mood and body language affects the relationships we form with our four - legged friends.

By placing behavior in terms of «the dog should do or feel xyz,» it relieves humans of the burden of understanding behavior in terms of antecedents and consequences, as well as understanding how classical conditioning affects a dog's feeling of safety in the environment.