Sentences with phrase «aggressive traits out»

Not exact matches

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

Lead author Dr Bonaventura Majolo, a behavioural ecologist based in the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln, said: «Parochialism — or being «prosocial» towards a member of your own group while being aggressive towards other groups — is an interesting trait from an evolutionary perspective because it lies at the heart of racism and out - group discrimination in humans.

However, the researchers point out that these aggressive traits are often balanced by positive attributes, such as loyalty.